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Privately made short percussion musket using a US Model 1795 Harpers Ferry lock, NSN, .71 caliber, 34 1/2" barrel with a dark, pitted bore. This musket was built using an 1814-dated Harper’s Ferry marked lock from a US Model 1795 flintlock musket. The barrel is a smith-made tube without markings, and has a percussion bolster-equipped breech plug mated to a French style percussion hammer. The metal has an overall lightly pitted dark brown patina with some thin surface oxidation present throughout, heaviest near and around the barrel breech. The action and barrel are fitted to a well worn US Model 1795 musket stock, heavily reworked for the new length and equipped with reworked original iron band and shortened nosecap. The wood has numerous small handling marks and blemishes throughout, as well as several breaks and cracks along the ramrod channel. The long rectangular inlets for the no longer present band springs were left unfilled on the right side of the forend. This is an interesting US musket, heavily reworked and converted to percussion.
