Snider Enfields and U.S. service

[Ridolpho]

I only have an overview of the Sniders, but I must admit, I always considered that the MkIII examples were manufactured as Breech loaders with new steel barrels?

Always something to learn....

Skennerton indicates that some 400 Mk III long rifles were equipped with iron barrels (from Enfield only). He doesn't elaborate about what other differences these had from the normal Mk III 3-band rifles or whether they were conversions of existing muzzleloaders or simply all new rifles with unused iron barrels. 400 out of >150,000 Mk III's produced at Enfield is a pretty small number and any example should have a conversion date in 1869.

Ridolpho

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