Author Topic: Help ID an H&A Musket (Read 519 times)

mufb · « **on:** April 24, 2005, 05:00:14 PM »

Hello all, I have what appears to be a 2 band musket. It's marked Hopkins and Allen, Numrich Arms, W. Hurley NY on the barrel. Barrel is rifled and 31 inches long in 45 caliber with a metal ramrod. I have attempted to get infomation from Numrich Arms (egunparts) with no luck. It does not have a nipple for it. Anybody have any experience with this type? Does it take a musket nipple or one for #11 caps. What size? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

ribbonstone · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2005, 05:19:14 PM »

Look it over real well...the little "proof" marks will lead us to the actual maker.

Will find a bunch of marks on that barrel somewhere...often hidden by the stock....some will be provisional proofs, definitive BP proof, usually a letter code for a date, and a maker's mark of some sort (either a design or a series of letters, often intertwined).

Once we know who made it, willb e able to trace down the right nipple thread. It proably came with a musket cap nipple (as almost alll muskets do), but replacement nipples using a #11 cap are available. Would stick with musket caps on a gun like this.

mufb · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2005, 05:33:42 AM »

Well, I tore this thing apart down to the last screw. The only mark I can find is a small "P" inside the lock. There are NO other markings on it other than what I indicated. Any ideas? Thanks.

Trapper-Jack · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2005, 07:06:33 AM »

For what it's worth, I have a .45 Minuteman Rifle by Hopkins & Allen/Numric Arms. I recieved it as a kit in 1970. The barrel does not have any markings on it.

ribbonstone · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2005, 01:20:37 PM »

Guess I was wrong...know H&A made the underhammer guns and the "long rifles" but thought they imported the rest...must have made them as well as anything coming out of Europe is stamped to death.

Email Track of the Wolf or Dixie gun Works...one of those two will be able to track down the right nipple for that gun.