Bought a model 1853.

[muzzleloadingat18]

I know it's old but not much else. Damascus barrel. 3 grove rifling 58 cal. I don't think it's the original lock. Two crown stamps inside the lock. I'm just curious what people think About it. Bought and shot the same day. Paid 350$.

 

[muzzleloadingat18]

I know it's old but not much else. Damascus barrel. 3 grove rifling 58 cal. I don't think it's the original lock. Two crown stamps inside the lock. I'm just curious what people think About it. Bought and shot the same day. Paid 350$.

There is RL on the stock and 36 on the bottom of the tang. That is all the markings on it

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

It is not a British made Enfield, rather a copy produced somewhere in east Asia. What style of barrel bands does it have?

 

[muzzleloadingat18]

Welded barrel bands. I just done see someone making a replica with a Damascus barrel

It is not a British made Enfield, rather a copy produced somewhere in east Asia. What style of barrel bands does it have?

 

[Trot]

The originals were not made with Damascus barrels. It was common on shotguns, I've never heard of a Damascus barreled rifle though. Enfield rifle musket barrels were formed from a single strip of iron and run through a series of U shaped rollers that curled the metal into a tube and the joint was welded.

 

[muzzleloadingat18]

The originals were not made with Damascus barrels. It was common on shotguns, I've never heard of a Damascus barreled rifle though. Enfield rifle musket barrels were formed from a single strip of iron and run through a series of U shaped rollers that curled the metal into a tube and the joint was welded.

Not original to the civil war. But I believe it's original to some time around the 1800s it's definitely not a new repro it cant be any newer than about 1901.

 

[wiscoaster]

Well, what the heck, for $350 and it shoots.

 

[Trot]

Probably contemporary to the Civil War, just in a different part of the world!