Think we have a winner!!! Good job 303! .72 cal.303tom said:That`s a Springfield................
It`s a 69 caliber smooth bore.................Think we have a winner!!! Good job 303! .72 cal.
Thought it was a .72. Picked up several .72 Minnie's around here metal detecting. Plus a few buttplates and barrel bands. It looked like a springer to me.303tom said:It`s a 69 caliber smooth bore.................
Mostly .57, just depends on where your from. Here, have found lots of removed flash pans off flintlocks that were converted to cap locks. Plus a lot of .69 & .72 Minnie's and round balls. You also find .32, .40, .45, .50 & .54 bullets and balls. They used everything around here. Lolnitestalker said:When have you ever seen a musket without a marked lock plate. The butt plate in not inleted. This single throat hammer on a Brown Bess.
Mini Balls were not used in smooth bore flint locks. The Mini was a Civil War era bullet for rifles. These were expanding base conicals mostly .570 Cal.
Sorry, we call them rifled muskets down here, my bad!!!nitestalker said:Very nice thx. That is however made for use in a rifle not a smooth gun. But Thx again for posting the .72 Miniball.![]()
And you are high to, the bayonet locking lug is on the bottom of the barrel, it is a Springfield................It is an original French sea service musket. It IS NOT a Springfield. They were never brass mounted.