In dealing with Martini's I find it a lot less "stressful" to measure the receiver ring and fit the barrel to that. I suspect the Francotte Tenon might be metric, but is close to a inch pattern and I have always been able to fit using inch dimensions. If the action is a Francotte the barrel trenon wil be even smaller. I have found a good deal of variance in the length of receiver ring and some diameter differences. 50 BOLT, EXTRACTOR M14 Buttstock Cleaning Kit with Steel Cleaning Rod, Bore Brush, M14 Combo Tool, and More.
Patent Foot Power Machinery Complete Outfits. Moss 518.890 Balm or cosmetic Lyon Manufacturng Company 24590 Wall paper cleaning material tor Zirelman & DESIGNS. Early ones are clearly 55 degree Whitworth, later appear to be 60 degree. Shop Phone/Message Center Original Antique Gun Parts for Sale including parts for Martini-Henry Rifles and variants such as the Gahendra & Francotte. Wheel Hobbs & Edwards 518.736 Window screen G. 710 x 1.090 x 14 V-tpi This tenon is always very uniform except in form. If you have a question about the authenticity of one of these rifles, visit the Martini forum on or the Martini forum at The Greener action has a larger barrel tenon. There have been failure reported, mainly in the knuckle seat. Warning however they are a great number of counterfeit Martini's and they should be avoided. Although it predates standardization, the MH-ME tenons and threads are very uniform and cutting to the dimension will fit most actions. I do not feel from the ones I have done that they are Whitworth-the pattern antidates standardization. I have never been able to clearly tell if the thread on these rifles are Whitworth or not. They are different.Ī real Martini Henry/Martini Enfield will be. Since I am missing a front sling swivel, rear sight and butt plate, if I can find those correct parts (as well as possibly a decent period style sling) I will add them to the gun, but that’s about it.First you need to be sure its a Martini Henry and not a Greener Martini. The action cycles and fires as it is, which is all I could really ask.
Most parts from one Nepalese Francotte won’t fit another one, which means if I tried to do a restoration I’d have to fab my own parts which would mean that I have less and less a collectable piece of interesting mechanical and military history from the 1880s and more a construct that I created from the remnants of one in the Snatchat age. The Francottes were Nepalese copy cats of the British Martini Henry rifles a. 577/450s in this gun and goes ka-boom.Īs for repairing the piece, I don’t think I am going to go that route. The third sequence in the breaking down and cleaning of a P1878 Francotte rifle. Nonetheless, as this rifle should never be fired, I will likely insert a cork plug in the breech throat with a warning written across it in ink so that no one comes behind me in future years and inserts said. 577/450 Martini-Henry to put with the gun for display purposes. I’m am, however, searching for a few rounds of vintage.
In short, this is a Khyber Pass breechloader before Khyber Pass breechloaders were cool. You see the bore diameter varies considerably from rifle to rifle, which was made by wrapping a steel rod around a mandrel and hammering it out.Īs scary moment of pause on this particular gun: the issued cleaning rod that came with the rifle was too fat to fit down the barrel, even after I cleaned the rust out, leading to the conclusion that either (1) the bore wasn’t swagged wide enough leaving under-powered loads to squib in the barrel and overpowered ones to shatter it, or (2) the cleaning rod was out of spec.Įven IMA says “These are 100+ year-old hand made guns, be very careful, IMA sells these for display purposes only, they are not intended to be fired.” There was a reason the Gurkhas moved past these guns as soon as they came up with something different. Where to next? Well I will do a few more cleanings to see if some of these rust spots will even out a bit more with the pits and eventually may get a electrolysis bath going if I think it will produce more results. You could give a Gurkha one of these alone and expect him to hold a hill until he died of old age.
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