Milsurp After Hours

The following texts muzzle loading and black powder breech loading arms are recommended. Please add books, magazine articles, web site links, etc to this list and/or reviews.

David

Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783 by De Witt Bailey

(Published by Thomas Publications, 1997, ISBN: 1 57747 016 8)

British Board or Ordnance Small Arms Contractors 1689-1840 by De Witt Bailey

(Published by W.S.Curtis (Publishers) Limited, 1999, ISBN: 0 948216 16 6)

British Military Flintlock Rifles, 1740-1840 by De Witt Bailey

(Published by Andrew Mowbray Pub, 2002, ISBN: 1931464030)

British Military Firearms 1650-1850 by Howard L. Blackmore

(Published by Greenhill Books, 1994 (first edition 1961), ISBN: 1 85367 172 X)

The British Soldier's Firearm - From Smoothbore to Smallbore 1850-1864 by Dr. C.H. Roads

(Published by R&R Books, 1994 (first edition 1964), ISBN: 1 884849 13 X)

David

The Research Press web site maintains a useful set of resource lists relating to the Enfield rifle, the Snider and the Martini. Go to:

Enfield - www.researchpress.co.uk/firearms/britain/enfield/index.htm

Snider - www.researchpress.co.uk/firearms/britain/snider/index.htm

Martini - www.researchpress.co.uk/firearms/britain/martini/index.htm

This includes books and magazine articles plus web site links and covers the rifle, manfuacturing, ammunition, bayonets, musketry instruction, reproductions, shooting today...

David

To learn about the developement of the muzzle loader in the US and of some of the major contributors to this developement, there is one text of long standing value.

Walter M. Cline's book, The Muzzle-Loading Rifle. Then and Now, was published for the first time in 1942. It has a wealth of information in it that has not been surpassed, both technical and historic.

If you have a hard time finding it, The National Muzzleloading Rifle Association used to sell copies.... probably still do.