Anyone know what the carbine was the Brits where using?
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Anyone know what the carbine was the Brits where using?
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I'd like to have one.
Enfield 1864 Cavalry Carbine
Do they make a kit for this?
Not always accurate but a good place to start when you have gun questions related to movies:
IMFDB
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Quigley_Do...avalry_Carbine
The movie prop houses have quantities of Snider breech loaders which have been sleeved to use the common 5 in 1 movie blanks.
The .577 Snider rounds can be loaded and improvised using Fiocchi or Magtech 24-ga. all-brass cases, cut to 2 inches and loaded with a .600" lead round ball, fiber wad column and 80 grains of 2Fg.
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Dog gone it, now I can't get that tune out of my head. [smilie=1:
That would be a lot more fun to shoot than my 14.2 pound Quigley .45-110, I bet. GF
@ GF
And doesn't it put about the same size hole in the paper at 100 yards ?
@ Indian Joe.
I take it you were there , being from Down Under.
We appreciate the Correct historical information.
Movies tend to distort the actual History.
That ain't right.
I loved that show. Made me want a Sharps. I ended buying a 1863 paper cartridge Sharps & love it just the same.
Fly
nah !!I werent there its a bit far away for me to visit on short notice like that - besides me horse was a bit lame
I searched all the Aussie colonial uniform info I could find -- couldnt see that headgear - uniform looked like more like in India at that time - headgear similar or from the Sudan
I wasnt thorough enough to say no for sure but it yelled loud at me from that picture - but then Tom Selleck's rig was kinda loud too eh:D
Legion caps probably started white … after a couple of years of use??