...just because it's been a while. Some more pictures of the Brown Manufacturing conversion of an Enfield 3-band musket to a bolt-action breech-loader.The concept was simple enough. Chop off the old breech, add a new one with a simple (but robust) bolt. The soldier would have to *** the hammer by hand, and that modification, extending back into the wrist of the stock as it does, is a great source of weakness... as the broken stock on this rifle shows. Anyway - the shooter cocks the hammer, rotates the bolt a quarter-turn, pulls it to the rear, inserts bullet, closes...
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Oct 28 2009, 06:54 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..