Original U.S. Civil War Era Springfield Model 1842 Percussion Musket Half-Stocked for Hunting - dated 1851 Brown Bess Musket Parts and paint loss

and paint loss

though over the decades both have faded to a mottled gray

showing the felt padding underneath

Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Princeton 1926-1928

This 1895 dated Martini-Enfield rifle is a conversion of the Zulu War era

Original U.S. Civil War Era Springfield Model 1842 Percussion Musket Half-Stocked for Hunting - dated 1851 Brown Bess Musket Parts and paint lossOriginal item: Only One Available. This just came out of the attic after a hundred years of storage, together with a couple of hundred other guns. It has been cleaned to present as a very nice example of a post war "Half Stocked" conversion of a Civil War Era Springfield Model 1842 musket. The US Model 1842 Muskets was a . 69 caliber musket manufactured and used in the United States during the 19th Century. It was a continuation of the Model 1816 line