Gun Manufacturing

Mechanical Engineering, the ASME magazine, has an article this month on early firearm manufacturing. It focuses on the difficulties of boring (or drilling) a long straight hole for the gun barrel, a technique still called gundrilling today. Along the way, it mentions that blacksmiths at Colonial Williamsburg can perform the process extremely accurately. We visited there in Spring, 2006, but didn't visit the gunsmiths. We'll have to do that next time!