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Long Range Target Rifles

American Rifles, 1877

You are here: Home > Firearms > Long Range Target Rifles Following defeat of the British rifle team by American riflemen at Creedmoor, USA, in September 1877, there was debate about the reasons for defeat…

Long Range Target Rifles

The 1862 London International Exhibition

You are here: Home > Firearms > Long Range Target Rifles The International Exhibition of 1862, successor to the 1851 Great Exhibition, was held at London 1 May to 1 November. Featuring over 28,000 exhibitors…

Long Range Target Rifles

Short Barrel and Long Range

You are here: Home > Firearms > Long Range Target Rifles I found the following account of trials with a short barreled Remington rifle interesting. I have not been able to discover any follow-up. New…

Back position

Enfield Optics

You are here: Home > Marksmanship > The Art of Shooting with the Rifle Written by: Frank W A Sutton Enfield Optics > Explanation & Lesson > Spectacles, Diffraction and Aiming Off Problems with…

Back position

The Back Position

You are here: Home > Marksmanship > The Art of Shooting with the Rifle Written by: David Minshall The back or supine position (sometimes referred to as the Creedmoor position) was known at the…

Back position

Hints for Long Range Riflemen

You are here: Home > Marksmanship > The Art of Shooting with the Rifle The Elcho Shield was first competed for by England and Scotland in 1862 during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Rifle…

Research Press Digest 2026

Research Press Digest 2026

You are here: Home > Publishing Research Press Digest 2026 by David Minshall (Editor)(Research Press, ISBN 979-8273400054) The breech loading rifle superseded its muzzle loading counterpart during the second half of the…

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Research Press publishing

You are here: Home > Publishing Books featured here are published by Research Press and available to order direct from Amazon. Links are to amazon.com, but readers from outside of the USA…

Research Press Digest 2025

Research Press Digest 2025

You are here: Home > Publishing Research Press Digest 2025 by David Minshall (Editor)(Research Press, ISBN 979-8300794262) The military smooth-bore flintlock musket and round ball ammunition saw general issue well into the…