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Journal is Research Press occasional magazine that features firearms, long range target shooting and military history. Newly written articles and contemporary reprints. It is also being gradually used to provide an archive of the web site content in a printable and often expanded form.
Research Press Journal – Issue 10, Winter 2020/21. (40 pages / 11.5mb)
- Priming – News, Events, People & Places
- A Lecture on Military Rifles (1905)
- The Remington Rolling Block
- Shooting Medals awarded to Major A.B. Leech
- Long Range Shooting: An Historical Perspective
- Parker-Hale’s 1861 Enfield Artillery Carbine
- The China Cup 1864
Research Press Journal – Issue 9, Summer 2020. (36 pages / 7.9mb)
- Priming
- Book News
- Firearms Research
- Black Powder Target Rifle Association ~ 2020 Update
- The Brunswick Rifle
- The Hounslow Powder Mills of Curtis’s and Harvey’s, 1896
- Military Rifle Shooting in American (1903)
- Luke and John Tippins
- The National Match, 1864-1899
Research Press Journal – Issue 8, Winter 2019/20. (40 pages / 8.3mb)
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Bisley
- Forthcoming Events
- Thomas Wilson
- Book News
- A Volunteer Enfield Rifle
- The Training of a Volunteer
- The Remington Rolling Block
- British Official Mid 19th Century Musketry Manuals
- Demise of the Black Powder Target Rifle
- The St. George’s Challenge Vase
Research Press Journal – Issue 7, Summer 2019. (44 pages / 6.9mb)
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Black Powder Target Rifle Association
- School of Musketry, Hythe
- School of Musketry – Annual Report 1855
- ‘Pickets’ versus Bullets
- The Match Rifle – Past and Present
- The St. George’s Challenge Vase
- British Official Mid 19th Century Musketry Manuals
Research Press Journal – Issue 6, Spring 2019. (44 pages / 6.1mb)
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Rifled Guns, 1859
- Enfield Rifle Team Shooting
- Long Range Rifle Fire, 1885
- The Queen’s Prize, 1860-1900
- The Literature of the Volunteers of 1859
- C. Sharps’ patent Rifles & Pistols advert
Research Press Journal – Issue 5, Winter 2018/19. (40 pages / 7.3mb)
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, c1880
- Small Bore and Match Shooting, 1869
- Horatio Ross
- The 1866 Benson-Poppenburg Breech-loader
- The Literature of the Volunteers of 1859
Research Press Journal – Issue 4, Autumn 2018. (40 pages / 6.6mb)
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Metford Trophy
- The Hepsworth Medal
- The Woe’s of Corporal Peake
- Firearms History
- Firearm Manufacture
- Barrel-Making
- The Proof Test
- Machine-Made Interchangeable Rifles
- Old English and Modern Foreign Rifles (1886)
- Powder Charge Experiments, 1875
- Whitworth Hexagonal Bullets
- A Martini-Henry Score Register
- The Literature of the Volunteers of 1859
- The Volunteers Take Shape
Research Press Journal – Issue 3, Summer 2018. (40 pages / 6.6mb)
- Calendar of Events
- Priming
- News, Events, People & Places
- Long Range Rifles (MLAGB Branch)
- Loading Ammunition (in the 19th Century)
- American Rifle Team, Creedmoor 1882
- Firearms History
- Improvements in the Rifle
- Breech-Loading
- Selection of the Service Weapon
- The Snider and Martini-Henry
- Military Match Rifles & Their Sights: Kerr and Turner
- Arming Georgia
- The Literature of the Volunteers of 1859
- The Urge to Volunteer, 1850 to 1859
Research Press Journal – Issue 2, Spring 2018. (40 pages / 9.8mb)
- Reports
- USIMLT Nationals – 2018
- 1000 yard World Championship Match – 2018
- Oak Ridge LRML Match – 2018
- Firearms Research Support
- Rigby, Quicksilver & Bullet Alloys
- Early Firearms History
- The Muzzle Loading Match Rifle in Great Britain
- Arming Georgia – “The Windsor Enfields Affair and Other Incidents”
- The Pattern 1841 Carbine
- Enfield Rifle Research
- The British Volunteer System
Research Press Journal – Issue 1, Winter 2018. (32 pages / 6.5mb)
- The Enfield Rifle
- Long Range Shooting with the Military Muzzle Loading Rifle
- The Whitworth Rifle: A Brief Introduction
- Hints for Long Range Riflemen
- First Hints on Rifle Shooting: Wind
- Private McVittie
- Breech-Loading Small Arms
- Thomas Wilson: his Patents, Arms and Ammunition
- Frederick Prince’s Breech-Loading Rifle