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Ripp
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1863 Springfield Rifle Musket-- I Have This Old Gun /video
      #320071 - 26/09/18 12:03 AM

https://www.americanrifleman.org/article...m_campaign=0918


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-GTEVa0vtE&feature=youtu.be

The Model 1863 Springfield Rifle Musket has its beginnings in the Crimean War when the Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket was the world's premier infantry weapon. Concurrently, the U.S. government was creating its rifle musket the Model 1855 and then later the Model 1861. Shortly after, the Model 1863 was developed as a more expedient version of the Model 1861 and was being made during the Civil War. It was the last percussion muzzle-loading firearm made by the Springfield Armory. However, it continued its service because it could be converted to a metallic cartridge by installing a trap-door type of conversion. And even though production of the Model 1863 ended in 1865, it is still made today in the form of Italian replicas. For more on the Model 1863 Springfield rifle musket, watch this "I Have This Old Gun" segment from a recent episode of American Rifleman TV

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Re: 1863 Springfield Rifle Musket-- I Have This Old Gun /video [Re: Ripp]
      #320186 - 29/09/18 09:21 PM



I have a 1980s reproduction of an 1861 Springfield. Fun to shoot, burns a lot of powder.

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Re: 1863 Springfield Rifle Musket-- I Have This Old Gun /video [Re: Rothhammer1]
      #320192 - 30/09/18 01:10 AM

Tks Art. Too and the Italians did not duplicate the progressive depth rifling that ALL 19th century manufacturers of those gums used.
Today, if shooting the Hollow based .577" or 575" slugs, the Parker Hales and very early ArmySanPolo Enfields rule. Some of those Italian guns used Parker Hale barrels.

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