Need help with a rifle value

[ehull]

While this site does not usually offer or comment upon the value of firearms (too many variables and the purchaser could end up disappointed in the RSA), I would say that you got a very fair deal for this musket at $600. Especially if it's in sufficiently good condition to shoot. If it has "SC" on the butt plate tang, you got one of the 5,000 bought by South Carolina in 1869.

[ehull]

Yes, the hisstory will soon be available in the MAN AT ARMS magazine. I have an article coming out in the not too distant future covering the .58 "conversion" rolling block muskets and rifles.

[rudybolla]

Are there any sources of information that you can suggest on the history of this gun and/or the loads for it? I can't wait to get it and start measuring and working on it. Thanks so much again,

Matt

Try George Layman's "The Military Remington Rolling Block Rifle". Affordable and packed with all of the basic information on most major examples of this rifle.

[tjack]

Matt,
For a case I use Bertram 577-500 cut down to proper length. I use a Rapine mold # 585510. It is a hollow base design. I'm using 60 gr. equiv. Pyrodex RS for approx. 1152 fps. The bullet weighs about 495 gr. I use some cornmeal filler and one .58 cal Wonder Wad. Good luck and have fun!!!!!
Tom