In an amazing 10-part video series, [Wallace Gustler] of colonial Williamsburg takes us through the process of crafting a flintlock long rifle circa 1700. All the videos are embedded after the ...

When mixed with insoluble aluminum and calcium salts, the insects’ bodies yield a red dye known as carmine, which was widely used in the Colonial ... traditional flintlock rifles used by hunters ...

WOW a 1700s flintlock pistol found metal detecting patriot sites for colonial coins and relics? During a recent trip to Charleston, SC we visited with our friends from the low country metal detecting ...

The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial ... flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun ...