Muzzle Blast: Ballistic Photography

The brilliant photographs above were taken by Finnish photographer Herra Kuulapaa.  Using high speed cameras he has captured the amazing high resolutions photographs of muzzle blasts and bullets leaving the firearms' barrels.  The photographs are captured just microseconds after the weapon has been fired capturing the projectile just as it leaves the muzzle.  The images stunningly capture gasses and ignition flames leaving the frames of the revolvers.

The photographs show the firing of firearms including: a .45ACP Glock 21, a .50AE Desert Eagle, an AR, a .44 Magnum Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan and the huge Smith & Wesson Model 500 firing. 

Kuulapaa's photographs are used to study the transition phase ballistics of firearms as they have just fired mapping blast from different muzzle breaks and examining a projectile's stability as it leaves the muzzle. 

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Recent Recap

This week's recap looks at posts over the last two weeks.  Some particularly interesting posts have covered the evolution of the Springfield M1903, the Tube magazine in military rifles and also at the only three men to be awarded Britain's medal for valour, the Victoria Cross - twice.

Other posts have looked at a number of fascinating pistols including the Russian OTs-38 silent pistol, the Colt M1902 and the Adam's revolver.  There have also been some interesting historical trivia posts looking at the first Royal Navy ship sank by the Japanese during WWII and to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death a look at some photographs of the great man handling various firearms.   

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Submachine Guns:

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Historical Trivia: First to the Glock

In 1986 the small Police Department of Colby, Kansas became the first US police force to formally adopt the, then new, Glock 17 pistol. The police department made up of 12 full-time members all made the switch to the Glock and are armed with them to this day.

When bought new the department received a generous discount buy the pistols wholesale for $300 each. Colby were soon followed by Miami, the first large Police Department to adopt the Glock, then Dallas, San Francisco and Canada’s Toronto police.

Glock, P. M. Barrett, (2012)

Weekly Recap

Here's the first Weekly Recap of 2014!  With posts featuring vintage Colt pistol adverts, lots of Quotes of the Day and an in-depth look at the revolutionary Spitzer Round. There was also the return of Ordnance of the Week with a look at The Royal Navy's first guided missile. And there have been Cutaway of the Day's looking at the Steyr AUG, Ruger Standard and the legendary Winchester 1873.

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Firearms:

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Miscellaneous History

Ordnance of the Week

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Historical Trivia: Glock Nomenclature

The Glock 17, the first successful polymer framed pistol, was designed by Gaston Glock between 1980 and 1982. The name of Glock’s pistol comes not from it’s 17-round magazine capacity but from being Gaston Glock’s 17th patented invention. 

Steve Melvin, newly hired CEO of Smith & Wesson, to his design team in 1991. This demand would lead to the ill-fated Smith & Wesson Sigma which would prompt Glock to sue.

Glock, P. M. Barrett, (2012), p.100