Domestic manufacturers of pistols of course, smaller than the four outfits named above It is my understanding that, given the severe shortage of supplies, the confederate army used bat guano to procure potassium nitrate (saltpetre), before mixing it with charcoal and sulphur, to create gunpowder Dragoon revolvers like these and in still another part of texas (sisterdale) the sisterdale dragoon.44.
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This is a step by step guide how i made one of the figures for the above shiloh diorama
I always start by making the head using 'supersculpey' firm clay (built on a wooden stick as it's easier to handle)
Using a guide i've had for years to get the proportions right, i built a wire armature and. The best quality arms made by any private company are from the london armoury company You'll find various opinions / facts / alternative facts about how many arms imported to the us for the civil war were from the london armoury I believe only a modest percentage of the hundreds of thousands of enfield arms imported were from the london.
I just watched lonesome dove with my wife Because the movie was set in the late 1870s many of the actors carried civil war era weapons In one scene gus mccrae is engaged with one of blue duck's thugs in a long range shoot out The thug uses a sharps 1874 long range sharps rifle with scope.
Does anyone have in their collection the humble pocketknife from cw times
I think this simple tool was one of the most useful for all I've seen pictures from the early war. In addition to swords made by other manufacturers, military volunteers were offered a wide selection of roby weapons that would have included n.c.o.,musician, horse artillery, and cavalry swords for enlisted personnel A foot infantry officer sword, model 1850
Any good hard wood could be used, which included sugar maple, red maple, cherry, apple, pear and sometimes ash and butternut (for southern rifles) French muskets followed the walnut trail as did most others, but austrian rifles (lorenz) could sometimes be made of elm and some german and belgian rifles had beech stocks. Were most muskets made from the same type of wood Being from michigan i know that huge amounts of lumber from michigan was being sold to the federal government, but i am not sure of the mix of hard woods and pine
My next question is, did wood have to season before it could be used in muskets?
