Looking for help identifying old enfield musket?

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Hey guys

My buddy came into possession of a nice old Enfield. I was checking it out today, and I know SFA about it... It's an enfield, from 1853. It's a percussion musket, one hammer. Has the bayonet and scabbard. It has some wierd trap door flap thing that opens on top exposing the chamber... Any info would be appreciated! Google isn't helping me out much.

Thanks
 
A picture would help but you seem to be describing a snider enfield which takes a .577 snider cartridge. The diagonal firing pin is probably why you thought it was a percussion gun

cheers mooncoon
 
Sounds like a Snider. It's the P53 rifled musket converted to a breechloader. Caliber should be .577, and you can form brass from 24Ga brass shotshells made by magtech/CBC.

Google snider and you'll get tons of info.

J
 
Sniders deserve respect.

They were the FIRST centrefire breechloading infantry rifle in the world: in production almost 3 years before the US adopted their 1868 Springfield in .50-70.

At one time, the Snider, or copies of it, or outright thefts of the action to avoid paying royalties, armed more than half the world.

The first Sniders were brought to Canada BEFORE Confederation, aboard the SS LEVIATHAN, otherwise known as The Great Eastern Steamship, taking an unscheduled break from laying the first trans-Atlantic submarine cable. That was 1866.

In Canada, they continued in military service into the 1920s.

Pretty hard record to beat.

And they are an absolute BLAST to play with on a rifle range.

BTW, Louis Riel had a Snider Cavalry Carbine he used for buffalo hunting.
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