Powder and Ball Small Arms

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Powder & Ball Small Arms is part of the new Live Firing Classic Weapons series. Each book in the series features full color photographs of experienced shooters dressed in authentic costumes handling, loading and firing historic weapons. In addition to detailed photographs of the mechanism of the weapons, a lively text gives the general reader an accurate view of what it was like to use the weapons in past times.In this volume, re-enactors in the costumes of everyone from medieval Burgundian hand gunners to Civil War infantrymen demonstrate the evolution of weaponry from the earliest firearms to the rifled muskets of the 19th century. In addition to the weapons, photographs illustrate the everyday life of marching, camping, cooking, and caring for their weapons and equipment. Powder & Ball Small Arms is an excellent reference for modelers, illustrators, re-enactors, costumers, wargamers, and educators.