Gamechaser
40 Cal
Cool either way, still an original rifle. Not chopped up or beat up and still shoot able to some degree
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1861 bridesburgh accuracy stinks
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Sounds like a reline candidate for Hoyt. At this point, if the rifling truly was bored out for shotgun use, a reline shouldn't hurt the value.
Many Civil War era gun were turned into smoothbores but as stated before, the stocks were usually cut down. I'm thinking that this may be a "parts gun" that somebody had a good stock and lock but the barrel was seriously toast and they just plunked a barrel that fit and looked good. They probably bought into the "shot out" nonsense and didn't know about the shotgun marketing post-War.
I agree with Dave 951- call Bobby Hoyt.
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I have an Enfield P53 that was bored into a small gauge shotgun , "possibly" to comply with the post-war laws in the South that civilians couldn't own rifles, "probably" just to make it into a cheap shotgun. The rest of the musket (no longer a rifle-musket) was left alone, and I just use it as a wall hanger.
