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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    I read somewhere that in the early 1840s, the ordnance department surveyed all the model 1816s that were still in service in armories around the country to see how many would be considered in good enough condition to be converted to percussion. About 700,000 had been produced by that time, but...
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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    I guess it's time to come clean on my musket since you brought it up. When I bought it, I was told that it was "a cleaned/restored, but not a re-converted" musket. However, not too long after I got it and posted about it here, I acquired the following book from Amazon: With the data...
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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    Much appreciated--and yes, I was kind of surprised when I started getting all these nice comments for a post I made that long ago. Thanks, I think the sling came from S & S firearms and was actually meant for a M1841 Mississppi rifle. However, the distance between the swivels was close enough...
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    FOR SALE Colt 1861 Musket (with all of the extras I have)

    Could you post a picture of the pitting area that you mentioned?
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    Recent acquistion

    That was my first thought when I got it. I bought this from Lodgewood who had it on consignment after they had repaired the stock broken by USPS in a shipment. To hide the repair they put that opaque surface finish on it and my first thought was a "chocolate coating" when I saw it. It has a...
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    Recent acquistion

    I've posted this on another board but thought you folks might also like to see it. It's the latest acquisition for my small but select collection of ACW small arms. I started with an M1863 Springfield a year or two ago, then got a Burnside 5th model cavalry carbine--and now to finally represent...
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    Not exactly for sale

    This was considered by many to be one of the most attractive of all the US military rifles. I won this in an auction back in 2021 in Camden, S.C. It's an original M1841 "Mississippi" rifle made by Robbins & Lawrence with lock date of 1848. This example is still in the original .54 cal and...
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    FOR SALE Wanted Scottish Murdoch

    If I'm not mistaken the Italian repros were called the "Black Watch" pistol and they have a steel barrel with an all brass frame. The only all-steel models that I've seen come out of India. There are about 4 or 5 importers of those with the best price from Military Heritage out of Canada...
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    English Light 6 Pounder & Reenacting

    To the OP You might find some use for this booklet carried by Amazon. It details operations for the gun as used by the British Army but would probably be the same for colonial use. LInk: The Light 6-Pdr. Battalion Gun of 1776 I have a nice little museum-quality 1/8th scale model of one...
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    1861 replica rifles ?

    Yes, they did. In fact they made both an 1861 and an 1863. Navy Arms imported and sold them and so did Dixie Gunworks--at least in kit form I think. However, the OP said his father's example has a ladder-style rear sight which eliminates any of the 1860's Springfields since they all had...
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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    That is technically correct, but according to authors George Moller and Kent W. Johns both the M1835/1840 and the subsequent M1842 line of muskets were mostly derivative of the M1816. I probably could have stated this in my original text but did not. At one time all the later versions of the...
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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    Thanks for the kind words gents. They used a wide variety of firearms in the Texas revolution including the ones you mention but I came across the info about the M1816 being used in the Texas revolution from Wikipedia of all places Here's the link : M1816 musket and here's the pertinent...
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    My oldest smoothbore Warhorse

    In my long-standing attempt to collect an example of every major longarm used by the US military, I just got this in a few weeks ago. It's a model 1816 Springfield .69 cal smoothbore flintlock manufactured in 1832. The M1816s were improved versions of the M1795, which was our very first...
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    SOLD Original Harper’s Ferry 1816 flintlock

    It's that white sheet that throwing off the auto-exposure meter in either your camera or your phone's camera. Go outside and put it on some weathered wood if you have a porch or a deck.
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    SOLD Original Harper’s Ferry 1816 flintlock

    How would you describe the condition?
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