Puffs of white smoke drifting over a clearing on the edge of Berryville didn't come from distant wildfires, but from the barrels of black-powder rifles, pistols and shotguns at a shooting match that ...
HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) — With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around ...
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