Al LaVodka
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Team;
Every day for nine days I'm going to post a picture and brief description of my latest nine muzzloader acquisitions, one at a time. I ask your forgiveness of my enthusiasm as well as if there are some details I leave out, am unclear on, or just make a silly mistake about.
To pique your curiosity, below is a small picture of them all. From back to front I'll simply go thru each arm, as described, in detail until finished.
General and specific comments are welcome and encouraged.
OK friends, let's have some gun fun! Here we go...
The first (or last as the case may be), as far as I can tell, is an Italian made repro of a Civil War period Zouave percussion rifle (believe Euroarms though it does not say -- click pic to enlarge). It has an anachronistic screw-adjustable rear sight and a very nice sling. Nice brass parts including patchbox. I got it in excellent condition except for the barrel bands having been repeatedly slid and thereby wearing the wood finish a bit. It otherwise seemed unused. Yeah, it could use a bayonet and maybe a "sniper" cross front sight for the heck of it. It will nicely complement my originals (the heavily-pitted side of my antique Remington is NOT on the lock side so thankfully I have an OK wallhanger...).
32-1/2" barrel, blued, walnut, .58.
Al
Every day for nine days I'm going to post a picture and brief description of my latest nine muzzloader acquisitions, one at a time. I ask your forgiveness of my enthusiasm as well as if there are some details I leave out, am unclear on, or just make a silly mistake about.
To pique your curiosity, below is a small picture of them all. From back to front I'll simply go thru each arm, as described, in detail until finished.
General and specific comments are welcome and encouraged.
OK friends, let's have some gun fun! Here we go...
The first (or last as the case may be), as far as I can tell, is an Italian made repro of a Civil War period Zouave percussion rifle (believe Euroarms though it does not say -- click pic to enlarge). It has an anachronistic screw-adjustable rear sight and a very nice sling. Nice brass parts including patchbox. I got it in excellent condition except for the barrel bands having been repeatedly slid and thereby wearing the wood finish a bit. It otherwise seemed unused. Yeah, it could use a bayonet and maybe a "sniper" cross front sight for the heck of it. It will nicely complement my originals (the heavily-pitted side of my antique Remington is NOT on the lock side so thankfully I have an OK wallhanger...).
32-1/2" barrel, blued, walnut, .58.
Al
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