.69 Calibre Conversion Musket

Tom Hughes

Sergeant Major
Joined
May 27, 2019
Location
Mississippi
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Here's a .69 calibre conversion musket that had been bent by the enemy.
Destroyed arms were done by heating up the gun barrel and twisting around trees to render the musket useless.
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You can see on this close up, where the flintlock was converted to a percussion firing mechanism.
 
Very nice. Were all the parts found together as I found 3 CS carbines and the barrels were bent like that but the butt plates were over 40 feet away as I figured they broke them against a tree.
 
Here are some photos of a neat relic barrel I used to own - note that notch in the rear sight dovetail, so this is from either a Model 1855 rifle musket, or a Richmond rifle musket. The barrel is full length, and I wish I had kept it to use as a "frame" for a relic display.

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I had run across reports from Mississippi after Union Cavalry raids in 1864 where a large cache of English Carbines were destroyed. These would be too many for piecemeal destruction, so I am supposing it was done by gunpowder and fire. Have any reports of a mass quantity of burnt artifacts ever come to the attention of collectors, in any locality?
Lubliner.
 
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