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    Need help identifying Revolutionary War era musket 🙏

    Sir, you're going down a rabbit hole. It is as it should be, it's a parts gun from the 1820's-1830's. Besides being flintlock and not percussion originally, there is no real restoration to be done. It's a piece of Americana, a piece important to some unknown individual, in an unknown location...
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    Help identifying unique flintlock pistol!

    I don't know what to think. The furniture is all over the place. The trigger guard seem more like 18th century English, the escutcheon is an odd shape and engraved, where as the side plate is very plain and of a style that seems like it doesn't fit at all. The lock like I mentioned above is not...
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    Help identifying unique flintlock pistol!

    I think the lock is a reproduction, an old Ashmore lock or maybe even a CVA lock? Nothing looks French to me.
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    Need Help Identifying This Heavy Behemoth!

    Agreed target rifle.
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    1857 Tower

    I think it's just a cobled together parts gun. The lock and barrel don't mate very well, there should be no gaps around the bolster and lock. It looks like it has a few different types of barrel bands. In the one picture the front band looks like there is a large gap between the stock and the...
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    unidentified weapons of gg father in Louisiana regt

    To me it looks like a standard conversion of a M1816 musket. Very common early in the war. Could have been his weapon, or like others mentioned, a prop at the photographers studio.
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    Marking Identification: New England Militia Musket

    The P and U.S. stamps seem to me it's a reused musket barrel. Especially being the standard .69 cal.
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    Need help identifying Revolutionary War era musket 🙏

    Yeah I'm with a post war parts gun. It seems to be a mish mash of parts from various styles. Committee of Safety guns I believe followed set standards set by the colony, usually similar to British guns in style and caliber. If you purchased it as a Committee of Safety musket or British Bess, you...
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    Question regarding the use of tow in a smoothbore

    With shot or ball? I use to use it with ball, Id just put the ball directly on the powder, and than rammed just enough tow down on top the ball to hold it in the barrel if I tipped the bore down. I never started a fire that I know of.
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    Original Sharps 1859 Rifle Berdan Configuration

    The interesting thing that I have read about the 1st and 2nd USSS is that some of their contemporaries did not think highly of them. We picture these guys as an elite force, and they were, but regular line soldier thought they were basically similar to murderers. Purposely going out in small...
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    Kibler Fowler available.

    If business is good you won't have any energy left to build the dang gun.
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    Kibler Fowler available.

    Sounds like something the government would say. I like the barrel profile.
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    1861 Springfield Barrel Patina issues

    If you Google the Whitney Arms stock cartouche, you'll see that Whitney purchased a bunch of slightly used muskets in like 1866-1867 and did there work, blued the metal, and stamped the stock. This one was shortened. So it's a neat gun, probably one with very little Civil War Service, but used...
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    1861 Springfield Barrel Patina issues

    As other might have mentioned, there was no Artillery Model rifles made in a M1861-63 parts during the war. I've always been told that's a name that dealers gave cut down muskets that retain a nose cap and barrel bands. Value would not be as much as an original length gun. Patina is something...
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    And it begins...

    I'd say between the hammer and the countersunk screw head holding on the pan. If the side plate doesn't work, sometimes you have to make one. Use the one you have as a pattern, just make it a little longer. Not hard to do, and then you get to say the side plate was hand made!
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    Springfield Model of 1822/28

    I would say call Lodge wood. He has parts listed for M1816's, so I'd start there. Finding all Springfield Arsenal parts is gonna be fun. It's looks to be in very nice condition.
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    Springfield maybe?

    It appears to be a parts gun. The stock is a M1855-M1863 profile, as is the lock plate, but it appears to have no markings anywhere. That's odd. The barrel should be .58 Cal rifled. They did bore them smooth after the war when sold off a surplus, maybe that's why it's smoothbore. I say it's a...
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    1849 Springfield

    It's a Model 1842 Springfied Musket. The Lock would have been made in 1849 if it is so marked. You might find the remains of the same date on the surface of the barrel tang. Also look for a VP and a Eagle head on the barrel opposite the lock. It was probably altered after the Civil War for use...
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    Tower Enfield ID

    I have no idea what that is. It has a typical BSAT Enfield lockplate, the hammer is not correct, the barrel is a Springfield M1861 or M1863 barrel, the rest of the furniture is civilian I think. I wouldn't buy it. You can't restore it to its Civil War appearance because it from several different...
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    My Civil War rifles

    I like the been there done that look. Just a heads up, Enfields produced by the BSAT were all hand assembled and parts are not interchangable. So whatever you are missing, you can probably find original parts, but you will have to hand fit them.
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