Originally Posted by
Harlan
Thanks everyone. I've decided on the Enfield 3 band rifle. I found a site selling Armi Sport Enfield 3 band and I also found a site selling an Enfield 3 band from an unknown manufacture in the link below. Don't know much about them.
http://middlesexvillagetrading.com/c...&product_id=80
Hallo!
Your second choice is a controversial one- it being an Indian made model gun aka "wall hanger" and not a firearm. (Although some reenactors learned to drill out a touch-hole and shoot them with blanks (and some even with live rounds.) And several importers import them, one IIRC does the cone/nipple/touch-hole work.
I saw this late, but I would have recommended that you handle some of the Italian repro options first. As shared, the "Enfields" have a higher comb and straight butt some lads do not like.
Also the rifle has a shorter 33 inch but thicker walled barrel than does the longer rifle-musket (39 for Enfield, 40 inches for Springfield) so it is a different weight feel.
Some lads like the rifle over the rifle-musket because they can load it faster. When I skirmished with a (so-called) Enfield P1858 "Naval Rifle" I could shoot 8-9 well-aimed rounds per two minute event. With my custom-built M1855 Type II "Harpers' Ferry," I could shoot 7-8.
Curt
Curt Schmidt
Formerly 17 years a Sherman's Bodyguard
Married to a descendant of Senator John Sherman's wife
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