Hi all,
I am looking to buy an Armisport 1842 barrel with breech.
Let me know if you have one and how much you want for it. Zip code for shipping is 35757.
Thanks,
Steve
Hi all,
I am looking to buy an Armisport 1842 barrel with breech.
Let me know if you have one and how much you want for it. Zip code for shipping is 35757.
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
I bought an Armisport breech from Taylor's and Co. in Winchester, VA when I was building my Macon conversion last year. I know the barrel is available, maybe as a complete assembly. They have all of the parts, usually in stock.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
Thanks Bob.
I think I am going to go all-in and just buy a complete Armisport 1842. I will eventually need all the hardware anyway.
Steve
I shoot a stock Armisport! Well, besides the glass bedding, anyway.
Steve
Steve,
You might want to change this advert to a M-1840 H&P barrel because the tang of the breech-plug is a 1/4-inch longer on the M-1840 than the M-1842, so the latter's tang is too short. Apart from the gap it leaves at the stock, the location of the pilot hole for the tang screw on the M-1840 is farther back than on a M-1842, so you will probably be wanting to find an M-1840 H&P barrel or certainly an M-1840 breech-plug because it is more likely to match up with the threads of an original M-1842 barrel than a repro barrel? But that is up to you.
First Cousin (7 times removed) to Brigadier General Stand Watie (1806-1871), CSA
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles | Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1862-66
Thanks Richard.
My plan at the moment is to buy a complete Armisport 1842, and use it as the basis for making an M1840 conversion. My plan is to design a new breech identical to the Armisport 1842 breech in external and internal dimensions, except for the bolster, which will be modified to have additional material on the belly to fit into the notch on the M1840 lock plate.
My hope is to leave the tang geometry alone so that it drops back into the Armisport stock without modification to the stock. If the 1/4" difference in tang length is a deal breaker for N-SSA approval then I'll have to make the tang longer and inlet the stock to accomodate. The tang screw probably cannot be moved as it has to fit with the existing Armisport trigger frame.
It's good to find out about these subtle differences between the 1840 and 1842!
Steve
The reproduction ArmiSport M-1842 tang will be accepted "as-is" for your project.
I don't know where you got your information on the breechplug difference. I've got 3 original 1835/40 muskets, a Springfield Flinter, a Springfield H&P and a Nippes with the Leman percussion conversion. I compared them to a Springfield 1842 and the breechplugs are the same. The tang screw is in the same place on all of them. Perhaps you have a Harpers Ferry with an 1840's date. Harpers Ferry never made the 1835/40 musket but made the 1816 pattern right up to the 1842 production.
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