[Hawg]

Originally Posted by std7mag

I'm leaning towards reproduction.
Rifling really wasn't in production till closer to the end of the war.
Civil war that is, so your talking 1863-64.
I was wondering if it shouldn't have been a flintlock, but upon further research the 42' was indeed percussion. The 40's were changed over from flintlock to percussion to make them 42's.
And they were indeed smoothbores.
Even my original 1861 Harpers Ferry is a smoothbore.

Still, nice find & beauty of a musket!
And one you can shoot!

There were 14,000 of them rifled between 1856-1859.