This Week on Dispatches: Matthew Moss on the Ferguson Breech-Loading Rifle
byIn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews British historian Matthew Moss and the story of Major Patrick Ferguson and the first breech-loading rifle adopted…
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Disarming the Disaffected
byIn a previous article I said that there are “times when a gun would have come in real handy” but there were no guns…
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A Want of Arms in Pennsylvania
byRemember when I wrote that nobody ever said life on the Pennsylvania frontier was easy?[1] Well, as it turns out, it was a lot…
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Bows and Arrows – Pikes and Spears
by“…good weapons not wisely laid aside” Wartime brings urgency to the quest for better weapons systems. That is as true today as it was…
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How far is “musket-shot”? Farther than you think.
byI first heard the term “musket-shot” many years ago in a video about the Battle of Valcour Island. Having participated in Revolutionary War living…
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The Aim of British Soldiers
byMyth: British soldiers were taught not to aim, but merely to point the piece towards the target[1] …the British soldier was a poor marksman….
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The Inaccuracy of Muskets
byA musket is not an accurate weapon. That’s a well known fact. But, why is it inaccurate and what can we learn from its…
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Charles Willson Peale’s “Riffle with a Tellescope to it”
byWhen one thinks of a telescopic sight on a rifle one does not think of the Revolutionary War. However strange, there was one documented…