My Enfield Snider .577

Sly Old Fox

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Here are a number of URL's from Photobucket for my Snider. I bought it on a trip along old #2 highway from an antique dealer, about 1957-58, for either $20 or $60.:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Snider1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Snider2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Snider3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Snider4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Snider5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/SniderButt1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/SniderButt2.jpg

Here are the cartridges:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/sparseoldsalt/Rounds577.jpg

The first is a brass/paper rolled, then the progression to brass and finally modern cases. The stubby round is a blank. For the first two, the nose of the bullet has an insert (?) of some kind. The bases of these minnie ball have a hard clay wedge to open the soft lead to take the rifling. The brass round is solid lead. As for the two empty cases, I bought ten years ago but they were made for boxer primers. I drilled them out to accept a shotgun patter cup and soft soldered them in.

The rifles and many wooden cased ammo (like the .450 seen for the Martini's in "Zulu") were prepositioned all Upper and Lower Canada, for the local militia units.

Sooner than later, this rifle will show up for sale.
 
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.577 cartridges

green said:
Cartridges
1) Mark IX
2&3) MkVI
4) Canadian second pattern
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Many thanks for the clarification.

Back in the 1930's, after the introduction of compulsory pistol registration, I knew some young men who were scouring the countryside picking up Colts, S & Ws and all kinds of stuff. They obtained several wooden cases of .577 rounds along with rifles. They would take a 6 quart basket full of shells and go out and fire alternately until one called "uncle!"

Oh, for the good old days.
 
Sly - a fine old Snider-Enfield!

As you probably know, the "DC in diamond" mark was the official Dominion of Canada acceptance and ownership mark for rifles and certain other military gear, adopted after Confederation.

By rights, your rifle should have a Battalion number (only one or two digits) stamped on the buttplate tang, with another number in smaller figures (up to three digits) under that, which would be the "rack number" assigned to that particular rifle within the battalion. If so, I should be able to tell you what Militia Battalion the rifle was issued to ....
 
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