Trapdoor Rifles

For $400, most in that price range I’ve seen typically have cut-down stocks, cracks, missing cleaning rods, etc. Yours still has appropriate cartouches, slotless screws on the rear sight, full-length stock. I don’t see any major cracks in the stock. If the bore is even halfway decent I’d say you hav...

It sounds as though you are talking about the eagle head which would appear with the V/P to the left of the top barrel flat: https://i.imgur.com/lONTVun.jpeg The V and P were removed when the conversion from muzzle-loader to trapdoor was completed. Originally it would’ve looked something like this (...

Perhaps of interest to cinephiles:

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1067647060

I was struck by the mention of the 5-groove barrel, recalling that some H&G guns had these. However, those reportedly had only the V/P/eagle head, while this one also has the second “P”.

Yup, I was interested in it as a late production, potential shooter, and cheap acquisition. But figuring it would need, say, $350 of rear sight and 1870-dated block, I bid well below the BIN price taking shipping and taxes into consideration. Besides, I had been stalking an 1899 carbine for months m...

This one has had a rough couple of months. After being relisted for a non-paying buyer in the auction I linked above, it then sold for about $100 more. And then it popped back up on GB, listed by that second buyer from this spring, but for a remarkably lower price. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/106...

I think have some pure tung oil around, although the last time I saw it was two moves ago.

May have to make another order.

Some of you may recall I had finally found a carbine with the upgrades of 1890 - an interesting double-cartouche specimen made in the early 1880s and subsequently upgraded with an 1884 breechblock, Buffington sight, and sight-protector band. A couple of weeks ago I ran across another 1884 carbine th...

An update - got in touch with seller and arranged a return, so my worst-case contingency planning is moot. 8-) Reckon the hunt goes on. I've never been much into bayonets, but I got a couple with some recent purchases, and they definitely add a certain *something* to the presentation of a longarm. A...

Now you mention it I do remember that warning about Hoppes.

That’s what I was afraid of/my dilemma (nickel plating). I’m going back and forth on it - ironically I have a civil war musket (for which this was intended) that has a similar look with speckled bright finish, the main reason I bought it. I’m leaning towards bright polish with rust, but doubt my own...