Original Remington Zouave Vs Repro Zouave

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I Acquired an original 1863 Remington .58 a couple of years ago. Beautiful shape on the outside, Barrel is fairly bad (ridden hard and put away wet) but will kinda group. 6 inch at 100 yds. That could be normal as it was designed to hit a man sized target somewhere on the body at 200. Rifling is visible.
Thinking about swapping out the barrel with a repro barrel if i can find one- but just for shooting. The original barrel will be kept.
Anyone ever done this swap without too many modifications to the repro barrel? Not modifying anything original.
Looking to see which repro barrel i should be looking for.
 
I had to do some work on a 150yr old Snider Enfield a while ago. I noticed several variations from the modern firearms I'm more used to seeing. First was the amount of handfitting of the small parts. Yes they all matched a basic set of drawings, but I'm sure parts won't cross fit perfectly across a dozen examples. The other big thing I noticed was the coarse and irregular cut of the threads on one little set screw. It really looked handmade.

To your original question, I would expect your Zouave will have half of its parts made by hand out of the bulk bin.
 
Try white acre machine shop in the states they manufacture custom barrels for civil war muskets.They can take your original barrel and copy it to fit your stock.A new barrel for your gun will cost $425 US.They have barrels listed on their web site for most of the civil war muskets.Their barrels also include a breech plug
 
I suspect that a lot of screws on old guns have been replaced at some time along the way. They had machine made screws back in the 1700's or thereabouts, so anything looking handmade probably was.
 
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