Snider Enfield Stock
- Thread starter Mike Webb
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Incurable Collectoer
CGN Regular
- Location
- Canada, B.C.
The short answer is a definite maybe. Most of the British made Sniders were conversions of interchangeable percussion Enfields and the MKIII Sniders were purpose built not conversions and definitely interchangeable. The percussion Enfields are a lot more complicated. The 4th and last model that were made by Enfield were interchangeable. However a lot of the earlier models were not. The US government bought a lot of the non interchangeable Enfields during the Civil War and many are still around. The Confederate government tried to source the interchangeable models.
I purchased a non interchangeable 3rd model percussion Enfield with a shattered butt stock and a friend of mine that is way better at this stuff than me fitted a Snider stock and lock on and it worked with a bit of persuasion. The non interchangeable barrel was thankfully thicker than the standard Snider barrel.
This particular gun had a Barnett made lock that was stamped Tower, and a barrel that was London proved.
I purchased a non interchangeable 3rd model percussion Enfield with a shattered butt stock and a friend of mine that is way better at this stuff than me fitted a Snider stock and lock on and it worked with a bit of persuasion. The non interchangeable barrel was thankfully thicker than the standard Snider barrel.
This particular gun had a Barnett made lock that was stamped Tower, and a barrel that was London proved.
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