Thread: My oldest cartridge rifle 1859 ( picture heavy )

Originally Posted by RUMPY

When you joined the barrels is the first bit smooth bore then into rifling?

No the donor barrel is stubbed into the sharps bored out shank
It goes fully to the breech face and contains the chamber and full continuous rifling

It's really just a barrel inside a barrel stub

This was to retain as much of the original Sharps as possible because it's barrel base and breech face has a lot of character