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 of a p56 short rifle with a long range rear sight and french barrel bands.

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 one definitely meets that criteria. The four groove rifling is strong and well defined with a very good muzzle crown (for what it is).

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 assumed that the later ones had the number of grooves reduced, at the same time the Altered Muskets were reduced. My rifle has a .702 bore, so it is a P51.

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-Pattern 53 Minie-bullet arms. This P 51 is in quite nice shape, cosmetically, and has an excellent 4 …

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, hard wood (I assume walnut root) and the fit of barrel, lock, and stock are all of the highest quality, as though assembled under the careful eyes of Lovell himself.

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 flintlock musket ( Brown Bess????) Pattern 1842, .758 ( Altered) Marine Minié rifle-musket (the rifled up version of the 1842 smoothbore). Pattern 1851, .702 Minié Rifle-Musket.

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 production using older parts (and not conversions of the …

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 have the barrel secured by barrel bands in the French manner. It was sighted to 900 yards. This rifle was produced in four developing stages after 1854.

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 the fore despite the other advances.-----12mm Second …

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-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles and was an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle as the main ...