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  1. J

    Remington 1816 Rifle

    And the rifle its based on is pretty much a fantasy in the first place. There is no extant Remington flint rifle...the one illustrated in the 1960s company history (which is not a reliable source of information) was literally made from a percussion rifle around 1912 by replacing the entire lock...
  2. J

    FLINTLOCK identity help required

    The lock will have been made in one of the towns on the outskirts of Birmingham, England in an area known as "the Black Country". It was called that because of the thick layer of soot from forges and fires that blanketed everything. The "3" is probably an assemblers or lock filers mark. By the...
  3. J

    FLINTLOCK identity help required

    I ought to have mentioned that the only book to examine these guns in detail is George Moller's "Massachusetts Military Shoulder Arms" published by Mowbray Publishing (manatarmsbooks.com) although I believe it is now out of print. You might be able to find a copy using bookfinder.com or contact...
  4. J

    FLINTLOCK identity help required

    They are very under appreciated guns and one of the best examples of something that can still be found in easily shootable condition and not cost an arm and leg. I used to specialize in them and had something like 40 examples at one time. About 15% of them have barrel bands and are in the style...
  5. J

    FLINTLOCK identity help required

    A very conventional militia musket ca. 1820-30 made from a mixture of surplus or condemned parts (barrel) and imported parts (lock and trigger guard). Very few NE militia muskets have sling swivels, all carried bayonets and all that I've handled (maybe 200 of them)had English import locks. This...
  6. J

    Anne Patrick

    Congratulations to your friend. I've seen pistols by Anne Patrick but I don't ever remember seeing a rifle. She is something of an enigma, a well-known name about which very little is actually known. The most likely scenario is that her husband worked for the Mantons or some other major London...
  7. J

    Lewis & Clark Rifle Found?

    Well, I'm fully prepared to stand corrected. As I did say, I didn't remember anything off the top of my head but I confess that Harpers Ferry Arsenal has never been a particular interest of mine. I have most of those books but I'm more than willing to take your word for it. However...even if it...
  8. J

    Lewis & Clark Rifle Found?

    2000fps? I wonder where that came from. The muzzle velocity of the M1817 Common rifle, .54 caliber with a round ball and government charge is about 900 fps. I don't think that velocities reached 2000 until the very end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. I'll add that all these highly...
  9. J

    What's the oldest shootable gonne?

    British "fusil" i.e. light flintlock musket* with a William & Mary cypher on the lock...about 1690? (I suspect Robin has me beat though)I know of at least one gentleman that hunts with a 17th century wheelock. I have no problem with shooting old guns and don't own any reproductions. Condition is...
  10. J

    A H Waters 1844?

    Mr. Frizzen beat me to the explanation. I agree its a conventional and untampered with New England fowler. The wooden underib, while common here, is hardly known elsewhere and the Waters factory is, of course in Millbury, Mass. In fact its only about 20 miles from my house and I've often been to...
  11. J

    Unidentified Heavy Flintlock 1" Bore

    Lacking a picture its impossible to say but I'd guess this is a big-bore African trade gun. Dixie had them in their catalog 20 or 30 years ago. Belgian made, probably in the late 19th century - they could have used left over or salvaged locks or parts from the Napoleonic era. I've never handled...
  12. J

    "Sporting target rifles?"

    Many part of the country were literally "hunted out" as early as the 1830s. Shooting, however remained a popular sport in an age that didn't offer golf, boating, football, baseball, television etc... In the northeast (New England, which I am most familiar with) there was nothing much bigger...
  13. J

    Japanese Tower Pistol Lock

    I realize this is probably a fools errand but a friend came by the house this evening with one of those Japanese-made "Tower" pistols minus its lock. He's a new re-enactor and I'm afraid was snookered by someone who told him "he could just order one from Dixie." Thats obviously not the case, but...
  14. J

    Musket info

    As far as is known, no M1777 muskets were supplied to the United States by France. It isn't even certain that the French Regulars who fought here under Rochambeau carried them, although it is likely that they did. (I've seen it in print that they did carry them but without any substative...
  15. J

    Percussion rifles used prior to the Civil War???

    Before the war...there is no dominent "brand" although a few large makers like Leman produced enough arms so that they had standard products and these were easily recognized. Huge numbers of ex-military muskets, used with shot and round ball, were in regular use - likely far more than rifles...
  16. J

    American matchlock

    I am pretty sceptical about the "made in Massachusetts" claim. England itself had very little gunmaking as we understand it in the 1st half of the 17th century. The evidence suggests that the majority of the muskets used in the English Civil War were Dutch or imported from the low countries...
  17. J

    N.E Pistols?

    Virtually all pistols used in NE were imported from Britain. Aside, that is from the military pistols made by Waters, Johnson, North, Aston etc. Even the so-called North "duellers" like those presented to Commodore Isaac Hull were almost certainly British made, albeit by one of the good London...
  18. J

    Did they really???

    I suspect you're spot on. And...I also think that they commonly used bullets quite a bit smaller than most shooters think they need for optimum accuracy. The references to using blankets as patching material confirm that...you'd have a heck of a time patching a ball .005 smaller than the bore...
  19. J

    Cannon Flintlock

    They weren't shooting at the sails..they were shooting at the masts and the rigging. A dis-masted ship was helpless, easily taken and worth a bundle of prize money. The only drawback was that hitting a mast with a smoothbore gun from a rolling deck was a real trick. Using chain or bar shot to...
  20. J

    Colt vs Rem

    Both the Colt M1860 and the M1858 Remington continued in service until replaced by the Colt SAA. During that time the clear favorite was the Colt...despite the fact that no new M1860s were available after the Colt factory fire in 1863 while thousands of unissued Remingtons were still in armory...
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