True Milsurp, None of that foreign junk, NRA Excellent grade!

Somewhere along the Detroit river are a dozen or two, 24 pounders from the original Fort Detroit.
Given their bankruptcy, I'ld bet they let you dredge for the right price.

Be nice to have some of those with the French or even Spanish foundry marks.

If you ever set it up on your local range, give us fair warning to buy powder.
I wonder if the range will let me mine the berm for lead afterwards?:p
 
Sure looks like a tube I tried to buy from a guy in Calgary a few years ago. had the same "found " story behind it. It was laying beside his house in a frozen pile of sand and snow, really neglected condition but he wouldn't budge on a sale at the time.

I'm very envious!!
 
It ain't NRA Excellent with all that pitting. And aside from the dried mud, the bore isn't excellent either. Snicker.
Best story I ever saw was from TO. A construction crew was digging a hole for a building near the old University Ave Armory and found a whole crate of Spencer carbines. Said carbines promptly disappeared into assorted vehicles. TO cops annouced they'd like them returned. Never did hear anything else, but I suspect there are a dozen or so Italian households with a Spencer carbine residing there.
 
John Sukey said:
The price of a carriage for that is gonna give you a bad case of "sticker shock!":sok2
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Already did, like I say, milsurp owners are so cheap and whiney, whinging at 100$ stocks for a mosin and the like. Low end of a carriage I have seen so far is 6000$, high end +20000$. Honestly the closest I see is the US stuff, which would be wrong for this gun anyway. I had thought of a sled, or a little garrison carriage. I think I could have a little wooden one done for quite a bit less. The other thing I noted is that this model has the lower pre-1750ish trunions, which makes it even older than I suspected, and by all I have read so far, very hard on the carriages.
 
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