The big brown truck paid me a visit today. When I buy something from gunbroker or online from strangers I am always a bit apprehensive. This time things worked out well.
After unboxing the rifle I noticed the target knob on the lyman peep sight was bent during shipping. I stopped right there and carefully straightened the knob out. Works fine..no problem. I noticed that the peep has an adjustable armature on it. I had always thought about getting one of them so this was a plus! I then took the action out. This gun originally had the spring detent that held the action in place, doc later used a thumbscrew. This one had been converted to the thumbscrew, another plus as far as I'm concerned. The breech plug came out with finger pressure. I was surprised to see that it had a ventliner installed in it, not many of us use them in the white breech plugs. It was not quite the same as Ron's conversion but the same principle and I have no doubt it will work fine. I pointed the barrel to a window and looked down the bore.....it shined like a new dime! I then patched the bore and the patch came out nice and clean, just a little dark from the oil. Made me smile! It all looks good, just a few handling marks on the stock and a few rub spots on the barrel which I would expect from a hunting rifle.
The extras were good too. One 209 breech plug with the hammer for it looks like they were never used, one extra hammer, one extra spring, one extra trigger, a #11 breech plug and a musket cap breech plug, two extra screws for the stock, an extra action retention screw and 100 saboted 350 grain projectiles. I think that's about it. It makes me wonder who owned it before it got into the dealer's hands. He obviously cared about the gun and took great care of it.
The skwirls better look out now ED!