MUSKET BARREL MAKER ADVICE
stripped the nepalese musket down for my friend and it appears to have an english barrel.39 inches or there abouts long with rudamentary front sight and no rear sight at allall barrel lugs intact and...
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Its not very helpful just having an initial is it. I wonder if its Beasley but usually his full name is applied. Is it a flintlock or percussion barrel?
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Looks to be converted flintlock to percussion as the tang as weld on so as the nipple area
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Does it have Govt proof marks on the breech? Also I didn't think they could weld nipple lumps to a completed barrel, it was done during the manufacture process. So nipple lumps as conversions were...
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Sorry Adrian my fault....they is braze on the tang and the nipple lump is brazed on too. It must be pre 1840 barrel due to this construction and they is no rear sight. Surprisingly the barrel as no...
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just off centre to the right about 3 inches forward of the nipple lump is a square patch which does look like a stamp but ineligible to read.between the B and B stamp are 4 strokes which i presume...
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I suspect that the second initial is G and may be, I said may, might be Galton who had a large trade with that part of the world. The Trade carried out many little temporary arrangements to filling...
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