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    Help Me Identify This

    Yes, when I responded to your earlier post, I wasn't aware of the relationship between the Jenks and the Merrill systems. You may be correct. It might actually predate the Merrill carbine and actually be a Jenks sporting rifle version. Thanks for your thought provoking comment.
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    Help Me Identify This

    I think I have the true identity of this interesting gun. I have put my assumptions in a reply to the original posting. Thank you for your response.
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    Help Me Identify This

    No, as I posted in a reply to the original post, I feel very strongly that this is a sporting rifle version of the Merrill Carbine used in the civil war. Comparing it to other Merrill Carbines, I think we can safely assume that it started out as a Merrill style action and based on the screw...
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    Help Me Identify This

    That was my first thought also. As a matter of fact I bought the gun assuming that it was a hook breech. You can imagine my surprise when I found that when I took the barrel wedge out the barrel still would not lift up and be removed. A responder on the other site where I posted this same...
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    Help Me Identify This

    Quandary is Answered!! A poster on another site where I posed the same question, responded to one of the pictures of this gun with the suggestion that the gun might be a modified Merrill action, similar to the Merrill Carbine of the civil war. Or possibly a sporting version of that carbine...
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    Help Me Identify This

    Quandry. ANSWERED SEE BELOW IN REPLIES I purchased this half stock on one of an online auction sites. Based on the description I assumed that I was buying a short stocked a little over 1" dia. heavy 30 1/2" barrel .45 cal. "chunk gun" or target rifle. I was intrigued by the pictures of the...
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    Do you think black powder will become scarce?

    I live near a very large town in Colorado. Not the same state it was when I moved here in the '90's. Pyrodex and the other fake powders are available but there was only one store that sold actual black powder and they went out of business about a year ago. Local regulations about "magazine...
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    Need ML Flintlock Barrel Rebored

    Thank you for the information.
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    Need ML Flintlock Barrel Rebored

    I have a lovely unmarked flintlock long rifle in .45 cal. that has a very heavy barrel and would be better in a larger caliber, preferably .54 and even better yet, .53 to match my Log Cabin Marked Navy Arms Hawken. Does anybody know who might be able to do this work? Hopefully in less time...
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