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…
In 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…
In a previous article I said that there are “times when a gun would have come in real handy” but there were no guns…
Remember when I wrote that nobody ever said life on the Pennsylvania frontier was easy?[1] Well, as it turns out, it was a lot…
“…good weapons not wisely laid aside” Wartime brings urgency to the quest for better weapons systems. That is as true today as it was…
I first heard the term “musket-shot” many years ago in a video about the Battle of Valcour Island. Having participated in Revolutionary War living…
Myth: British soldiers were taught not to aim, but merely to point the piece towards the target[1] …the British soldier was a poor marksman….
A musket is not an accurate weapon. That’s a well known fact. But, why is it inaccurate and what can we learn from its…
When one thinks of a telescopic sight on a rifle one does not think of the Revolutionary War. However strange, there was one documented…