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Before any negativity, vendor bashing or snyde comments begin, please refrain from such. I'm here to talk about shooting an Indian made Enfield musket I bought on an impulse and turned out OK.
I originally had wanted a .65 repro of an Indian "post Mutiny" musket but Veteran Arms never got back to me. I had this .58 on backorder from Middlesex Village. Almost a year later I finally got it 2 days ago.
I fired a couple blanks first, then a few patched. 530 balls. It doesn't seem to like light loads, a 30 gr charge didnt light off. I rolled the ball out, added more powder and it fired fine.
The nipple that comes with it is manure and must go. These are threaded for 8-1mm nipples. I have Treso nipples for musket caps and #11 caps. I shot today with the factory nipple, cap fit was terrible. Instructions are to "pinch" caps but I'm not doing that when I can just put it a new one.
Appearance wise, it is not close to a P53 Enfield . It looks like exactly what it is, an Indian cottage factory produced Enfield-like musket.
The rear sight is welded to the barrel and looks to be integral with it. The barrel is about 37" , a bit shorter than a 3-band. Fit and finish is OK, it's actually a decently assembled piece.
The lock works well, snaps strong and the trigger is OK.
I made cartridges with common .530 round ball,and 80 gr of 2f....... they load easy and at 20 yards shoot fairly accurately. The rear sight is more for decoration, the "notch" is more of a huge , broad U shape but is useful for pointing the musket. I wouldn't bother going bigger than .530, there would be 0 gain in accuracy in my opinion.
Using a patch for the ball yielded no advantage.
I only made 10 cartridges and after they were gone, I simply dumped 75 gr of powder down the pipe and dropped a loose .530 ball in, and used random paper as "musket wadding". Accuracy was about the same as with cartridges.
I originally had wanted a .65 repro of an Indian "post Mutiny" musket but Veteran Arms never got back to me. I had this .58 on backorder from Middlesex Village. Almost a year later I finally got it 2 days ago.
I fired a couple blanks first, then a few patched. 530 balls. It doesn't seem to like light loads, a 30 gr charge didnt light off. I rolled the ball out, added more powder and it fired fine.
The nipple that comes with it is manure and must go. These are threaded for 8-1mm nipples. I have Treso nipples for musket caps and #11 caps. I shot today with the factory nipple, cap fit was terrible. Instructions are to "pinch" caps but I'm not doing that when I can just put it a new one.
Appearance wise, it is not close to a P53 Enfield . It looks like exactly what it is, an Indian cottage factory produced Enfield-like musket.
The rear sight is welded to the barrel and looks to be integral with it. The barrel is about 37" , a bit shorter than a 3-band. Fit and finish is OK, it's actually a decently assembled piece.
The lock works well, snaps strong and the trigger is OK.
I made cartridges with common .530 round ball,and 80 gr of 2f....... they load easy and at 20 yards shoot fairly accurately. The rear sight is more for decoration, the "notch" is more of a huge , broad U shape but is useful for pointing the musket. I wouldn't bother going bigger than .530, there would be 0 gain in accuracy in my opinion.
Using a patch for the ball yielded no advantage.
I only made 10 cartridges and after they were gone, I simply dumped 75 gr of powder down the pipe and dropped a loose .530 ball in, and used random paper as "musket wadding". Accuracy was about the same as with cartridges.
Hey, it might be fun with the double-ball load. You know, that's cool, just sounds like a gun you can have fun with, period. Can't beat that.
