Looking for info on 2 old rifles (#2)

bangbangshootshoot · April 22, 2009, 06:23 PM

For the 2nd set:
- the number 60 (below the firing pin).
- it measures 52-1/2" full length
- barrel measures @36-1/4" to firing pin
- inside diam measures @ 15.5mm

Thnx in advance!

Arquebus · April 24, 2009, 01:34 PM

Pretty certain it is a (Austrian) Lorenz M.1854 Rifle-Musket. Lots of those were imported for the CW. Original caliber was .54, but alot were bored out to .58. If yours is larger it could well have been bored out to a smoothbore.....such was the fate of many a surplus CW musket.

April 24, 2009, 01:34 PM	#2
Arquebus Senior Member Join Date: October 1, 2008 Location: Inland NW Posts: 116	Pretty certain it is a (Austrian) Lorenz M.1854 Rifle-Musket. Lots of those were imported for the CW. Original caliber was .54, but alot were bored out to .58. If yours is larger it could well have been bored out to a smoothbore.....such was the fate of many a surplus CW musket. __________________ "For a man, be he ever so much resolved to do his duty as a parent, can't be flogging his children all day....." The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (William Thackeray).