Trivia #8 True or False (4/8/2014)

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True or False: The 1842 Harper's Ferry Percussion Musket was .58 Caliber.
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[Mike Serpa]

False

 

[Dbersh]

False

 

[chellers]

false

 

[adisciu9]

False. .69 caliber

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

False

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

The National Firearms Museum http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum...rpers-ferry-model-1842-percussion-musket.aspx states: "The Model 1842 was the first regulation percussion musket to be manufactured at both Springfield and Harpers Ferry Armories, as well as the first to be produced by both national armories with fully-interchangeable parts. These were also the last .69 caliber smoothbore arms to be produced by the U.S. government. Approximately 275,000 were manufactured between 1844 and 1855, with nearly two-thirds of these produced at Springfield. Additional examples were made under contract by A. H. Waters and Benjamin Flagg of Milbury, Massachusetts, and at South Carolina's Palmetto Armory."

Answer is: False, they were .69 caliber. Thanks!!

 

[reading48]

False
It was the last of the .69 caliber smooth bores.

 

[theoldman]

False .69 caliber

 

[BlueGrayBlood]

False

The Model 1842 was the first regulation percussion musket to be manufactured at both Springfield and Harpers Ferry Armories, as well as the first to be produced by both national armories with fully-interchangeable parts. These were also the last .69 caliber smooth bore arms to be produced by the U.S. government. Approximately 275,000 were manufactured between 1844 and 1855, with nearly two-thirds of these produced at Springfield. Additional examples were made under contract by A. H. Waters and Benjamin Flagg of Milbury, Massachusetts, and at South Carolina's Palmetto Armory.e

 

[Littlestown]

false

 

[godofredus]

False. It was .69

 

[AUG]

False, it was .69 Cal.

 

[Bob Owen]

False

 

[101combatvet]

false

 

[ErnieMac]

False.

 

[C.S.M 1861]

False "The Model 1842 was the first regulation percussion musket to be manufactured at both Springfield and Harpers Ferry Armories, as well as the first to be produced by both national armories with fully-interchangeable parts. These were also the last .69 caliber smoothbore arms to be produced by the U.S. government. Approximately 275,000 were manufactured between 1844 and 1855, with nearly two-thirds of these produced at Springfield. Additional examples were made under contract by A. H. Waters and Benjamin Flagg of Milbury, Massachusetts, and at South Carolina's Palmetto Armory." http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum...rpers-ferry-model-1842-percussion-musket.aspx

 

[Grateful Southerner]

True

 

[Karlos63]

False

 

[Eagle eye]

False