1816 musket conversions to rifled by Colt.

[Darto]

Guns for Garibaldi!

 

[BEP]

Thanks for posting this. I've got a couple of 1816s with the cone-in-barrel conversion and I learned a bit about them today.

 

[RAEDWALD]

One should note the rear sight on the Colt conversion. It is the same as the Russian Luttich rifle (Belgian made copy of the British Brunswick Rifle). When Colt bid to sell converted muskets to the Russians they insisted on him using their sight design and that is what we see here when Colt had his contract with them cancelled and he was left with them. One might also note that the sight is the wrong way round for Russian use. The leaf arm should be pointing away from the soldier which reduces the distance between the sights but, more usefully, increases the clarity of the rear sight. Museums with Luttich rifles displayed often have them on the wrong way round. The front leaning arm was the choice of the Russian‘s Finnish expert riflemen who were the finest users of that rifle.
P.S. If anyone has a spare such Colt sight I would very much like to purchase it, albeit from a very shallow pocket.

 

[Sam squanch]

The come in barrel conversion was not considered very strong, so load accordingly.