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Because I know you woke up this morning wondering about artillery powder charges through the ages. Left to right - 3 inch powder bag, Revolutionary War. 155mm "White Bag" charge, used up through the 00s. One.single.charge.increment for the 16" battleship guns. They would use at least three of these. The colored bags are ignitor charges, intended to face the primer vent and to flash nearly instantly, to ensure complete and thorough burning of the powder. And no, of course, they don't...

A little family time in Las Vegas in 1953, watching some nuke testing...

Because I know you wanted to know. The bullet is formed integral to the cartridge case as is blown free upon firing....

...who brought up Confederate polygonal cavity artillery projectiles. I knew I had one somewhere. An early attempt to control fragmentation....

The Launchers. There were essentially 5 types of V-B launchers in US service. To minimize the time between adoption, production, and issuance, the V-B launcher and grenades were adopted as-is. The only initial changes needed were the dimensional changes required to adapt to US rifle barrel/front sight profiles. When US production caught up there were 4 US- specific Marks of launcher adopted, though the Mark II was never manufactured. 1. The original was the French launcher . While US producers were...

Nota Bene: this is a long one, and I've chopped it up into four parts. Okay, as I have said before, people who are trying to kill you while you are trying to kill them suck. They’re supposed to just surrender, right? I mean, why can’t we all just get along – especially if you’ll do what I tell you! Anyway, once this whole blackpowder/gun thing got going, especially as the guns got better, people started doing things like hiding. And that sucks. Besides, they rarely come...

My kinda Ammo Dawgs, though.