enfield, reworked by James River Armor

[musketbal]

Hi all,
This started out as a Euroarms enfield. Work was done by James River Armory and Lodgewood.The hammer has been replace with a "plain" type.

Thanks,
Brent Conner

[Greg Barnett]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

I love the Barnett Enfield for some reason. Nice looking rifle.
Cheers,

[Slouch]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

you say you replaced the crappy repro hammer with a plain hammer...did you pick up an original or is someone reproducing a good enfield hammer now? If orginal, did you have probelms with the fit?

[Andrew Kasmar]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

Hi,

Now that is a good looking Enfield. Thanks for posting the pictures.

Andrew

[musketbal]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

Slouch
The hammer was bought from Lodgewood. I sent the lock along with it to have it fit properly.The hammer is also a repo. If possible I would like to replace it with an original. I have seen a plain "Barnett" enfield lockplate with the hammer engraved.During the War , because of hard use the hammer would need replacing if damamged. Lodgewood also did a great job of reworking the barrel bands to set them properly to the contours of the barrel and stock. Originaly they were the funky pattern 4 bands that come on the Euroarms. They were replaced with Amisport bands. The musket is 26 yrs. old and has tigers tail stripe walnut the length of the stock. The pictures don't do it justice. Also James River Armory did a OUTSTANDING job on the defarbing of the musket to give it a more authentic enfield.

Brent Conner

[David Fox]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

It's purty. The wood is extraordinary. You must be like an ugly nerd dating the prom queen when you're in the field w/ this beauty. By the way, I recently read somewhere...perhaps in this forum...that the wood gap at the toe of so many original Enfields is due to the cutting-back of the buttstock of existing pieces to conform with altered 1860s British regs as to butt length. Supposedly the fabricators, making the alteration shortening the buttstocks, didn't bother reshaping the brass buttplate toe. One doubts that: both my Enfields (1862 and '63 Birmingham export products) have that wood shrinkage and never needed to comply w/ Limey army regs.

[fahnenschmied]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

Thats really nice!! Maybe you could try a Colt Special Model musket hammer for it...worth a try, and it wouldn't look out of place on the Barnett lock..

Dave Stone

[-Jesse-]

Re: enfield, reworked by James River Armor

Thats a good lookin' Enfield!