Research Press Journal

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