Veteran Arms

[Clsinclair]

Have any of you had any experience with Veteran Arms? They have a M - 1842 Springfield listed for $450 with a bayonet. The reason that I am asking is because Cornbread (aka Tom Key) is considering purchasing one for the 150th Firing on Fort Sumter and he wanted me to check them out before he purchased one. Cornbread doesn't have a computer. They do have a pair of wood sole shoes for sale but they say that they are not for the double quick. I am not pushing this site as I have never heard of them.

Their site is: www.VeteranArms.com

Thank you in advance.

Claude Sinclair

[David Fox]

Re: Veteran Arms

Hummm. At the price, one could be forgiven for thinking the origin of the pieces involves being hammered-out on a flat rock in India or Pakistan. With a company headquarters in Georgia, someone should be able to eyeball the offerings. Comes to mind; how are they breeched? But, then, what do I know?

[benjclark]

Re: Veteran Arms

The specs for the M-1842 are at the right on this page: http://www.veteranarms.com/vallc/M1842.html
Listed lastly: "Made in India"

[Clsinclair]

Re: Veteran Arms

The specs for the M-1842 are at the right on this page: http://www.veteranarms.com/vallc/M1842.html
Listed lastly: "Made in India"

Must be a surplus of what they are using in the field!! Opps, I didn't say that.

[marktaylor]

Re: Veteran Arms

I am going solely on pictures, but the M1840 and M1842 look very close to the ones that Loyalist Arms sells, and IIRC, are also made in India.

[BrianHicks]

Re: Veteran Arms

Lumpkin, Ga. isn't that were Westville is located?

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Veteran Arms

Hallo!

If one picture is indeed worth a thousand words....



Two pictures might be worth ten thousand words:



Curt

[FloridaConscript]

Re: Veteran Arms

one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong....

[Craig L Barry]

Re: Veteran Arms

Veteran Arms is just another vendor for the same low quality India-made stuff that MVTC, Loyalist Arms (and others) sell, minus the headaches of importing from Halifax, Nova Scotia. So while the pricing points are attractive, the weapons are not. The stock will be teak not walnut, and so on. It is the type thing if you bought you would likely be stuck with. You certainly could not re-sell it on here. Might make a decent unit loaner, but my experience suggests that you are better off looking for a good used musket in that price range rather than one of the India imports that are made as wallhangers, exported that way and converted to live fire here. As Geoff Walden puts it (paraphrased) "The US 1842 is the most gracefully looking of the US model smoothbores." The pictures of the Veteran Arms version just misses that sleek looking quality completely. It looks thick and clunky by comparison.

When the only "better" about a musket is that it costs less, generally that trade-off is lower quality. It seems like there has been a shortage of good, used 1842 Springfields for sale lately, I remember when you could pick one up for around $450 to 500. However you can still get an Armi Sport '42 NIB at Dixie Gun Works for $595. That is about $30 below the dealer cost from Taylors & Co for that particular musket right now. Obviously it is old stock that Dixie is closing out, but you would be much better off putting another hundred and a half into the Armi Sport which is a much better piece. You can de-farb an Armi Sport 1842 in about an hour, except for the brass sight blade. It would take years and cost hundreds more to get a decent weapon starting with one of these Veteran Arms India imports.

[J.Whitley]

Re: Veteran Arms

What all is necessary to defarb a '42?

Mr. Whitley, please sign your posts. Thanks, Michael Comer

[ndnchf]

Re: Veteran Arms

This may be of help:
http://forum.pafoa.org/gunsmithing-4...2-spngfld.html

Steve Blancard
13th Va. Co A.