Shooting Civil War Remington Zouave Rifled Musket

I am shooting my Remington Zouave Civil War Rifled Musket. It is a Euroarms replica. I am using 60 grains of FFg BP and a .575 minnie ball.

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Sports

Tags:

• Musket
• Civil
• War
• Rifled
• Zouave
• Black
• Powder
• Shooting

[CentralFloridaBoy]

Funny, death tolls show that Confederates killed more Yankees in the war of Northern Aggression (nothing "civil" about it). Either way, Confederate or Yankee, I don't think too many liked being shot in the first place. Good men died on both sides of that war, before you go disrespecting fallen men, you should look at what your almighty Federal Union has turned into. The Federal government pitted us against eachother for there own agenda.The South was right and the North just can't admit it.

[musketman2008]

@CentralFloridaBoy

I absolutely respect the soldiers of the Confederacy. They fought for their country and we men of honor.

[LivetysWiretys]

did swedes copy any muskets from americans like from remington or something ?

[musketman2008]

@LivetysWiretys I'm not the one to ask.  I don't know much about Swedish arms prior to the Swedish Mauser model 96

[musketman2008]

@LivetysWiretys I really don't know.

[LivetysWiretys]

some 1 know did they use any swedish rifles in the civil war ?

[musketman2008]

@LivetysWiretys I have not heard of any being used.

[WelshWebb]

@E2theSamps The Remington 1863 was, of course not issued, but some of the men of Dygert's Sharpshooters (attached to the16th Michigan) used the 1863 Remington during the war for a brief period after "liberating" a number of the weapons from a Federal warehouse. We have their diary accounts. Dygert's boys just couldn't resist trying out a new toy, but the "Zouave" didn't fit their needs and they abandoned them in favor of the Sharps, which they also "liberated".

[CentralFloridaBoy]

@CentralFloridaBoy Other than that, nice rifle, and more accurate than most would think. [X} Deo Vindice [X]

[banjoman5000]

Sir, I am not a trying to be a stickler, but I am a reenactor and for the safest loading procedure would be to leave the cap on. If you remove it first, as you pour the powder down, air can swirl in the breach and posible make anything that might be left in ti ignite. We take i off as the last thing ve do before firing

[LivetysWiretys]

@Gungeek oh that's interesting but i think they got some swedish too but im not sure, but i recommend to get that gun it's a wery nice rifle.

[Gungeek]

@LivetysWiretys The Americans did get lots of guns from Europe during the civil war but I dont recall hearing about Swedish guns. Most were British, French, Austrian and some Belgian I think.

[Gungeek]

@LivetysWiretys I have one.

[LivetysWiretys]

@Gungeek i found the one i was looking for: 1867-74 Swedish Rolling Block Rifle. It differs from the "regular" 1867 in two ways:

1- the rear sight calibrations have been lined through and re-stamped,

2- the buttstock has a higher comb, a superior buttstock profile that puts

the eye more in line with the sights.

It's not bad, it's actually pretty good the swedish did good work with that rifle. and it was wery precise when i tried it out. you should get one of those they are really nice.