Guns International #: 102279264
Seller's Inventory #: 228519

Category - Civil War Rifles - Colt Rifles - Antique

Category
Civil War Rifles
Colt Rifles - Antique

Antique CIVIL WAR Contract COLT SPECIAL Model 1861 EVERYMAN’S Rifle-MUSKET Percussion Musket Manufactured in 1863 w/ BAYONET

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Antique CIVIL WAR Contract COLT SPECIAL Model 1861 EVERYMAN’S Rifle-MUSKET

Percussion Musket Manufactured in 1863 w/ BAYONET

Here we present an antique Civil War U.S. Colt Special Contract Model 1861 Percussion Rifle-Musket, produced in 1863 at the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Production began in September of 1862 while the war was in full swing. The Union was still trying to make up for arms shortages and the destruction of the Harpers Ferry Armory with production at Springfield, supplementing this with contracts with over 20 other contractors, like Colt, for rifle-muskets. Colt contracts with the Federal Government, along with State Governments, resulted in approximately 100,000 muskets being produced.

The M1861 is representative of the “everyman’s” rifle during the war. About 1.5 million rifle-muskets were made in the U.S., over 800,000 of which were made by the Springfield Armory. This was the last hurrah of the rifle-musket as arms development and tactics rapidly advanced during the short period of the American Civil War. Nevertheless, the 1861 represented new technology as it was made for use with the Minié ball, a hollow based, conical projectile that was small enough to quickly push down the muzzle of a rifled barrel and expanded to create a good gas seal unlike a solid, round ball. Almost immediately after the war, the US military switched from the old muzzle loading type weapons to the newer breech loading rifles, bringing an end to the musket as a standard frontline firearm in American history.

The overall condition is good. Original patina. The action is excellent. The bore is in good shape with nice rifling. The stock is solid. It shows some signs of being cleaned. The barrel bands have been shimmed with slips of paper. Remnants of two cartouches on the left stock flat. Bayonet is in very good condition.

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Barrel is 40 inches.

Caliber: .58 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2300

#228519
 

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Antique: Yes