FS Navy arms Musketoon

[pdecarlo]

For sale 58 Cal. Navy arms Musketoon. Do not know how it shoots. Bought it never fired. $300.00. Contact pat.decarlo@yahoo.com

[Muley Gil]

Is this musketoon based on the Zouave or on the Enfield?

[pdecarlo]

It is based after the Zouave.


Pat DeCarlo
Delaware blues

[tonyb]

Is that shipped?

[pdecarlo]

Sure but dont mean to be a jerk thats after payment has cleared.


Pat DeCarlo
Delaware Blues

[CAGerringer]

Can we even shoot a Zouave based musketoon?

[ms3635v]

Zouave based carbines are not on the approved list according the 2012 SAC list of approved firearms.

[Cannonsight]

Email sent...

[RaiderANV]

These were sold as hunting arms back in the 70's and are NOT an N-SSA approved arm and never will be as they never existed during the War of Northern Aggression ;)

That said the ones I've had over the years shoot great and work great for deer.

[pdecarlo]

neither did steal frame henrys or 2 band spring fields and the list goes on

[Ron/The Old Reb]

Be careful you're going to open a big can of worms.:o

[RaiderANV]

neither did steal frame henrys or 2 band spring fields and the list goes on

Naw,,,,,my side had plenty of 2 banders. Thinkin' only us Reb units should be able to use them! ;)

[rachbobo]

But would John Holland let them pass inspection for N-SSA use.

Bill Cheek
Cockade Rifles

[RaiderANV]

Nope. They don't even closely resemble anything. Least the Henry's are true to pattern for the most part even though steel is allowed, the "zouaves while not issued were purchased & in inventory during the war. My side had plenty of 2 banders. OK,,,,,,maybe not as many as are on the line during a Nationals but we had 'em.

[Rich Foster]

I guess the 1855 Springfield 2 band Rifle was just a myth??????????

[John Holland]

Yeah, pretty much.

Claude Fuller gave them some credence in 1933 and nobody questioned it until some 60 years later. Some of the more talented researchers discovered records at the Springfield Armory which showed that 3 band rifle muskets were being cut down to 33" barrel length in 1870 - 1872. Springfield kept very good records and there is nothing like that for the Civil War years. BUT.....as PJ stated.....the South did have some of them. Please read what Paul Davies wrote about the 33" barrel length alterations to battlefield salvaged muskets, and the newly fabricated 33" arms done at Richmond. The book is "CS Armory, Richmond", by our very own Paul Davies. It is well worth the read.

JDH

[pdecarlo]

Gun as been sold

[hp gregory]

i bought one at a daniel morgan shoot many years ago from the frontier shop. it was a tack driver. at the time i thought i could use as a legal carbine. found out otherwise. real shame.

hp

[tonyb]

Change the patch lock and the front barrel band call it a Mississippi. lol