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My accountant rang and after the usual regarding my tax. He says " I've got two old guns here for you one is the sort you load with a stick the other has a lever with an ammo belt and really big bullets. The lever won't move there a bit rusty the guy who owned them died 30yrs ago and they have benn lying under his house since then." Junk or not I'll find out on friday when I collect them. The muzzle loader could be anything I'm hopeful the lever may be a Martini-Henry 577-450.
Even it if they're rooted as a firearm they could still be restored cosmetically for wall hangers
Christmas has come early��
Fuk......thats way more than i get from my Tax accountant....sounds like a 'keeper'......:thumbsup:
Ok what ya all reckon.
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What a bummer they're like that! I'll give you $5 for the ammo
Sweet hand-chopper-off-er
So far I have only cleaned.
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The Martini Henry is a Khyber pass gun but the decoration is solid silver.
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What a shame they were just thrown under the house!:wtfsmilie:
Great score all the same tho :cool:
That is AWESOME, you lucky bugger
No chance either is fireable?
If the action on the martini is ok you could re barrel the actions are fairly robust
Or clean them up, apply varnish and make wall hangers
With a bit more work both will go bang but I would be pulling the trigger with a long string. At this stage they will be wall hangers .
So the inside of the barrels are ok? Load the 577/450 with a SPANZ cartridge 60 grains over 85 got some brass if you wAnt
No the insides look like the outsides did the tower musket has no rifling showing and a .58 minie is a very loose fit. The Martini has some very faint rifling in places but it needs a couple of new springs and a part to make the extractor work but as its a khyber pass fake with only the breach block and trigger assembly genuine Martini Henry I'll leave it on the wall.
Musket could be smooth bore but closer to .75 I think!
Just measured it .596 at the muzzle and .580.5 at 1/2" inside so still in spec in places, it will need some heat to remove the barrel plug.There is something sitting down inside the barrel right where I would expect a charge and bullet to be. I've had an old charge go off once before when heating an old percussion pistol to get the twist off barrel off. I was expecting it and it only put a dent in my shed roof. With this one I will try to remove whats in there before any heat is applied.
When I first saw them I did think they were junk but now they have been cleaned and on the wall someone else will have to throw them out.
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They are gorgeous. A delight to see something like that bought back into some sort of condition that they can be seen for what they were.
They sure look the part a bit of history there.
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