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Black powder Rifles

May 11, 2019 By GunnersDen

History: The history of black powder rifles in the United States of America starts around the year of 1730 with the introduction of the Sidelock, Flintlock, Longrifle muzzle loading rifle “(Muzzleloaders)”, of which there were approximately 7,000 manufactured. Rifling Twist Rate, 1:60″.   Then the introduction of the Sidelock, Caplock, Hawken muzzle loading rifle, in […]

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Hawken Muzzle Loaders

June 14, 2018 By GunnersDen

Traditional Side-Lock Muzzle-Loaded Hawken Rifles: The United States of America was settled and occupied traveling from east to west, as this expansion took place, the animals settlers and trailblazers encountered grew in size from common White-Tailed Deer and Black Bears of the east side of the Missouri river to Bison, Elk and Grizzly Bears on […]

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Blackpowder Firearm Ignition Systems

May 12, 2018 By GunnersDen

Black Powder Muzzleloaders. Man soon discovered that if black powder was put into a strong tube closed at one end, it would channel the power of its explosive charge towards the other (open) end (path of least resistance), pushing any object it encountered in the tube and propelling it at great speed. Thus the early […]

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