Percussion altered Springfield Model 1840 flint musket

[WESTbury]

Update on plugged vent holes.

Plate #45 of James Hicks book U.S. Ordnance shows cross sections of percussion altered barrels. The cross section of the Belgium Plan shows a pin rather than a screw.

Don't know why I did not look at this book sooner.

[wildcatter]

Westbury,

Thank you for the updates. Very interesting stuff!

Matt

[WESTbury]

Also included in Hick's book on pages 79-80, published in 1940, and regurgitated by Pete Schmidt and George Moller whose books were published in 2007 and 2011 respectively, is the ordnance correspondence related to the percussion alteration of flint muskets and rifles.