Dec 8, 2023 · Up for sale is my "Brazilian" light Minie rifle. Regardless of what limited information is avaliable for these Civil War era short rifles, essentially what we have here is a beligian copy …

Apr 16, 2019 · Once again a kind BMF member pointed out this 1851 Minie rifle for sale. I’ve been looking for a P/51 for years, especially one with a bore and stock in shootable condition. This …

Nov 28, 2011 · I know this is a rather old post but I just opened it. I have a 3-groove P51 rifle, with an 1854 dated lock. Although all the references mention 4-groove rifling for the P51, it is …

Sep 27, 2024 · I purchased this recently from a good friend. I now have this, a P42 Rifled Musket, a P42 Sea-Service Rifled Musket and the tiny Paget Rifled Carbine as examples of pre …

Mar 27, 2020 · The rifle has the correct Lovell bayonet catch, and obvious wear signs from having had a bayonet attached and removed many times. The stock is extremely sound, of very solid, …

Jan 13, 2009 · Pattern 1853, .577 Enfield The long rifle, the two band navy rifle and the short carbine.. Pattern 1842, ??? caliber smoothbore. Is this gun a percussion conversion of an …

Jun 29, 2023 · The poor cousin of the minie rifle family, this tiny gun was, apparently, an alteration of the "Paget Percussion Carbine of 1847" which, according to Bailey, were largely new …

Feb 15, 2009 · 1.a.iii Rifle-Musket Pattern 1853, The "Enfield". .577 barrel of 39 inches rifled with three grooves having a spiral of one turn in 78 inches. This was the first British infantry rifle to …

May 14, 2011 · Here's an interesting rifle Fultons of Bisley have in stock at the moment.Heath Robinson comes to mind.Looks like the concept of the musket as a bayonet holder is still to …

Jul 27, 2022 · The Minié rifle was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captains Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d'Orléans and Henri …