Which Part Is Considered The Main Firearm For Antiques?

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Just curious, was thinking about getting an 1800's percussion lock pistol barrel only. If I buy a reproduction stock and lock is it still considered antique? Also while we're at it, was thinking of getting parts for a Colt Walker, which parts need to be from the 1800's and which can be reproduction? Thanks.
 
For antique muzzleloaders they are a little vauge but it seems to be that they consider the breech and or barrel the "firearm" part.

So if you wanted to make a brand new pistol but have it antique status you would need and antique barrel and then build up around it.

Cheers, McLean
 
Original Walker parts?

With a cap and ball revolver, the receiver - the frame - is the major component. I suspect that the likelihood of finding an original Walker frame would be in the same category as finding a tap dancing, singing pig.

As far as what is the "receiver" of a lock, stock and barrel muzzleloader, the law is silent. There have been various suggestions and opinions, but I do not know of any legally definitive definition.
 
it would be the frame on a cap and ball revolver. like others have said good luck with a colt walker frame what did survive is in one piece no doubt you also have to remember the old frames are iron so even with a new barrel and cylinder i will not take the same beating the new ones can

id look for a 1858 remington to play with
 
tiriaq said:
As far as what is the "receiver" of a lock, stock and barrel muzzleloader, the law is silent.
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I never realized it, that saying must come from the muzzleloading days when guns were just a lock, stock and barrel.
 
The interpretation of officialdom is that for a muzzleloader non-repeater, the barrel is deemed to be the receiver. During the LGR days Mossberg was selling a shotgun combo with an in-line muzzle loader barrel. Owners would get a registration certificate for the shotgun receiver and another one for the muzzle loader barrel.
 
And to further shag things up, many armies dated only the LOCK of a firearm.

If the Barrel is the Antique part, then what do you say about a Snider with an 1861 Lock, an 1861 Stock, an 1866 Breech..... and a 2013 Barrel to replace the rusted-out one that once was on it?

Replacement Barrels have been available Stateside for almost 50 years now and are still in production. There must be THOUSANDS of 1863 Remingtons and Springfields out there with completely-original Locks and Stocks and replacement Barrels..... and completely-original rifles with replaced LOCKS..... and completely-original rifles with replaced STOCKS.

It's like the story of the Old Man's Axe: replaced the handle 3 times and the head twice and it's still the same one!

WHAT a stinking kettle of fish!
 
smellie said:
And to further shag things up, many armies dated only the LOCK of a firearm.

If the Barrel is the Antique part, then what do you say about a Snider with an 1861 Lock, an 1861 Stock, an 1866 Breech..... and a 2013 Barrel to replace the rusted-out one that once was on it?

Replacement Barrels have been available Stateside for almost 50 years now and are still in production. There must be THOUSANDS of 1863 Remingtons and Springfields out there with completely-original Locks and Stocks and replacement Barrels..... and completely-original rifles with replaced LOCKS..... and completely-original rifles with replaced STOCKS.

It's like the story of the Old Man's Axe: replaced the handle 3 times and the head twice and it's still the same one!

WHAT a stinking kettle of fish!
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for breech loaders its the action/receiver muzzleloaders its the barrel/breech plug together that are the firearm
 
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