Guess the Sight Picture

[gsimmons]

Hahaha! Thank you. It's an 1842 musket with what looks like an 1855 type bayonet(as apposed to the1840 type). Do I get extra points?

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Here is a softball.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Softball #2.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Bad part is with my old eyes this photo is not far off my actual sight picture.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Is softball #1 a Jungle Carbine?

[mdrim13]

I'll jump in I guess. Heres one for ya...

Mdrim13

[mdrim13]

Softball #2.








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Russian M44 Mosin

mdrim13

[jmoore]

I'll jump in I guess. Heres one for ya...

Mdrim13

Now that one has me stumped. Very too round on top. Oh, wait, stupid white photo control bar is concealing the ejection port area (???). Hmmm. ETA: (Ach, I think I got it! That one is definitely "fringe-y".)

But two of HOOKED ON HISTORY's Mystery Sights have yet to be correctly ID'd.

Sorry to have been away all this length of time. Took a day off. Went to the range. Computer dramas. Couldn't find some tooling. Yada-yada.

Oy, gsimmons, that's the bayonet I have. It fits. Another fellow thought it was OK, and noted that it was a fairly scarce item. Wouldn't an 1855 be too small? (That's one rifled musket I don't have.) But otherwise, yes, it's an 1842 musket. Last of the US military smoothbores and the first "primary issue" percussion system weapon.

Some links:

US Model of 1842 Musket (A Photo Study in Several Parts)



New and Old: Knight's SR15-E3 IWS and U.S. Model of 1842

[gsimmons]

JM,
They made the 1855 "style" blade to fit the .69 calibre muskets that were being made and converted in the 1850's. It is absolutely correct for that musket. The older style bayonet was used with the model 1840 flintlock musket(most were converted to percussion) and the early 1842's.

[jmoore]

JM,
They made the 1855 "style" blade to fit the .69 calibre muskets that were being made and converted in the 1850's. It is absolutely correct for that musket. The older style bayonet was used with the model 1840 flintlock musket(most were converted to percussion) and the early 1842's.


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Ah, thanks! My few books on these early weapons are not hugely detailed, and are known to be "dated" (i.e. full of errors). If you would care to comment in the photo thread linked above (rather than the range report), I think readers would benefit from your knowledge!

As you had not previously viewed the thread (hence your eligibility to answer!) you will find that the lock is dated 1851. So a slightly later bayonet doesn't hurt my feelings at all! Just happy to have one. Have yet to get a bayonet for my late 1816 type flintlock.

On to the next mystery!:




Mystery Sight P#30