1861 Springfield tableau

[14NYSM]

This is my Dixie Gun Works 1861 Springfield replica, 1st year of production (two digit SN.) with a few things I use in historical displays. the Springfield is great and balances well, but the ramrod bent easily in stacking arms. The ramrod is made from 3 pieces with the swell being one piece. The fired rounds I picked up from the backstop at the rifle range I used to go to.

1861 Springfield

 

[bayonet]

This is my Dixie Gun Works 1861 Springfield replica, 1st year of production (two digit SN.) with a few things I use in historical displays. the Springfield is great and balances well, but the ramrod bent easily in stacking arms. The ramrod is made from 3 pieces with the swell being one piece. The fired rounds I picked up from the backstop at the rifle range I used to go to.
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plus if someone didn't stack arms correctly and they fell over guess who lose his front sight. Me at least twice and one time the Bum didn't even apologize!

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

I like all those shot and deformed bullets - I remember being impressed when I read about how the trenches at Petersburg were "mined" after the War for all the tons of lead from the bullets in the earth after so many months of siege.