A Different Levergun

[KCSO]

Last year i rebuilt and restocked a Burnside carbine for a friend. The gan came into the sho as a basket full of mixed parts and no stock. Each part was cleaned and where necessary welded up and milled back to spec and then the stock was carved from black walnut from a plank I had in the garage. This year it is being used for Deer Season. We havve the rifle sighted in dead on at 50 yards using both homme made aluminum cartridges and an adapter that alows the gun to be loaded and fired as a muzzleloader. Groups at 50 yards are 3" with the cartridges and a pointed bullet from a Dixie mould. Groups with eht M/L adapter are much better as the patched ball fits the barrel much better than the sliightly undersize Dixie Mould. For those unfamiliiar with this gun the lever raises and retracts the breech block and a cartridge, that looks like an ice cream cone fits in and is pushed into the breech end of the barrel. The small end of the cone has a hole and a musket cap on the nipple sets off the whole works. These were somewhat popular with the Union calalry but the advent of a one piiece cartridge ended their shoort history. The Burnside Co went on to make a lot of Spencer Carbines after the war for use in the west.

[Hobie]

Now that must have been a project! Sure wish you had some photos...

[hfcable]

man that is a great project. i have always wondered what they were like to shoot.
great! now shoot an animal and post the pictures!!