Local pawn shop had an US 1816 conversion, with the nipple directly into the barrel and the holes in the sideplate filled and pan ground off they wanted $600 for. Given that I dither over spending $100 it was still there when I left, it had been there a month or so when I finally found out what they would take for it and it has been a month since I was there or so.
I love handling these old guns and imagining what they might say if they could talk.
I wonder what the morale of troops being sent of to fight against 1853 Enfield eqivilants, and Sharps and such must been like. "Wheee! I got a an overly long, heavy, welded up, old rusty gas pipe to fight with !" just does not sound right.
How does one say "Buck and Ball" in High German anyway?
-kBob