Ken, that's two of us who are kind of surprised. :shock:
This guy's not a skirmisher, just a shooter who wants to restore it IF a "carbine" version was its legitimate starting point. Otherwise, he's undecided about what, if anything, to do with it.
I heard off-board from one of our regional commanders that it was most likely a post-service conversion, a la the Bannerman Springfield "shotguns," with its barrel shortened for handling purposes. That makes a lotta sense to me, but I thot I'd toss it before the greatest body of accumulated period firearms expertise for confirmation.
Jim Strang
Gen. W.T. Sherman's Bodyguard
Midwest Region
"I think the Union army had something to do with it."
― Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed.
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