Allen, thanks for posting that. I've only read the first link by the "war gaming" brothers but it looks like a very concise summary of the Russian systems. Their description of chambering and outside lines of the barrel gets a bit confusing, probably since the terminology is new to them, but I think you could take most of what they wrote to the bank. I'm going to post the link on the fast-moving "napoleon series" board that's inhabited mostly by serious authors and historians, and see what they think, but I don't see how they could find any huge faullt with it, there just isn't much info generally avail. and this fills a need.