My 1863 Springfield copy has got to be the most I over paid

by cas, Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 21:00 (219 days ago) @ A K Church

...for any firearm in my life. Because I paid $650 for it, before tax, in 1991? (I was making $200 a week). They were selling for that much not too many years ago. Any time I'd see them for sale I'd think "Oh my God, how bad did I get ripped off!!!" It was the first one I'd ever seen for sale, I thought I may never see another, so I jumped. (stupid lol)

I shot it a lot. Needing Mini balls is what introduced me to bullet casting.
But to hunt with it in my state at the time, you had to use round ball. So I had a really high front sight put on it (which still wasn't high enough, had to cut the rear sight down to nothing). And of course only a few years later they changed the law. I still regret doing it.

I bought a new front and rear sight to put on and restore it. Never did. It's been sitting in an envelope in my desk for 25 years.