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Started by DEH, October 14, 2025, 02:03:34 PM

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DEH

October 14, 2025, 02:03:34 PM
https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/
This is a source I use for information on some technical aspects of guns.  It is not easy to navigate. You pretty much have to open up every month to see what was posted or use a google search to find what you are looking for.

For example 416 stainless used in gun barrels is martensitic not austenitic steel and typically less durable than Chrome-Molybdenum steel alloy.  https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/06/barrel-making-making-modern-steel.html

Metal Treatments: Browning and Bluing. https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/metal-treatments-browning-and-bluing.html
The formula for the solution used for the Brown Bess musket (taken from General Regulations and Orders for the Army, 1811) is as follows:
Nitric acid - 1/2 ounce
Sweet spirits of wine - 1/2 ounce
Spirits of wine - 1 ounce
Blue vitriol (a.k.a. copper sulphate) - 2 ounces
Tincture of Steel - 1 ounce

You get the picture.  Lots of technical trivia.
-Appleseed: '08-IBC, '09-Red Hat, '09-FT Stewart, '10-RBC, '24,'26 IBC

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-2Cor10:4-5. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, & bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

-Eph6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this moral darkness and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Fulcrum

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October 15, 2025, 06:26:15 PM
That's interesting, and I like the recipe for browning solution. I think the ingredient "blue vitriol" is kind of funny though — in sounds like angry, bitter criticism delivered with a lot of profanity and vulgar language! I don't know if I could take 2 ounces of pure blue vitriol! Yikes!

DEH

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October 15, 2025, 07:19:13 PM
You could if you were a villain.  200 years ago that would have been pronounced Vile Lien with a literal meaning.

Check out the other technical information there.  There's lots more.
-Appleseed: '08-IBC, '09-Red Hat, '09-FT Stewart, '10-RBC, '24,'26 IBC

KD '09, '10, '11, '14, '15, '16, '22, "25. RFKD '25. Pistoleer '24.

-2Cor10:4-5. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, & bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

-Eph6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this moral darkness and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Charles McKinley

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October 24, 2025, 08:08:10 PM
This looks way more interesting than my other assignments.
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