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Bill...try to drop into the gallery before or during or after the gun show...sure I will see you up there. Destry, I hear you on hunting...I wish I had the free time....I will be busy trying to make a buck. An 8 shoot would be something  Jeff
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Bill, want to get you to take a closer look at this Sneider when your around. Jeff
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What leads you to believe it was converted ?
Maybe I'm missing something but I can't see anything that would lead me to believe it was converted from a muzzle loader. You avoiding the question ?
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I find this interesting....top of the center rib is marked Clark and Sneider, Baltimore, Best Laminated Steel 1859. [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img] [img:left]http://  [/img]
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Posted photos finally...take a look. Appreciate your opinion....Jeff
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English black powder proof marks on the barrel flats. Can we have a pic of the watertable?.
What makes you think it was converted from a muzzleloader?
Often muzzleloaders of this era have the bar-in-wood action, this one does not.
I think it is an English gun made in Birmingham. I dont think it was converted from a muzzleloader
Mike
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Thanks Mike...let me see if I have a pic of the WT...it may have no marks...let me check. Absolutely...looking to get opinions on this. It was suggested awhile back....that it may be a conversion...so looking to get input on this early gun. Some believe the barrels are converted muzzle-loading barrels....Jeff
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Looks like a conversion to me with barrel flats soldered on the the donor barrels. No Sneider Pat. locking bar on the receiver on this one. Nice sculpturing on the receiver/breech.
Also, the 6000 range serial no. does not seem to be in sequence with other Sneider gun numbers.
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Thanks Daryl....appreciate the input.
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Jeff, I'd sure like to see the proof marks on other Clark and Sneider guns, if possible, please.
Is a gun converted from percussion if muzzle loader barrels are fitted to it?
Was the firm of Clark and Sneider similar to Von Lang and Detmold(?) and Charles Daly?
Did they actually make anything themselves? Just curious.
Mike
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