Thread: Junk or not.

No the insides look like the outsides did the tower musket has no rifling showing and a .58 minie is a very loose fit. The Martini has some very faint rifling in places but it needs a couple of new springs and a part to make the extractor work but as its a khyber pass fake with only the breach block and trigger assembly genuine Martini Henry I'll leave it on the wall.

Musket could be smooth bore but closer to .75 I think!

Just measured it .596 at the muzzle and .580.5 at 1/2" inside so still in spec in places, it will need some heat to remove the barrel plug.There is something sitting down inside the barrel right where I would expect a charge and bullet to be. I've had an old charge go off once before when heating an old percussion pistol to get the twist off barrel off. I was expecting it and it only put a dent in my shed roof. With this one I will try to remove whats in there before any heat is applied.

When I first saw them I did think they were junk but now they have been cleaned and on the wall someone else will have to throw them out.

They are gorgeous. A delight to see something like that bought back into some sort of condition that they can be seen for what they were.

They sure look the part a bit of history there.


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