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    Quote Originally Posted by loiner1965 View Post
    love to have one on my 1858 but sadly we cannot even though brownells uk do sell them i believe
    Section 5 over here unfortunately..
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    Quote Originally Posted by loiner1965 View Post
    love to have one on my 1858 but sadly we cannot even though brownells uk do sell them i believe
    Quote Originally Posted by vbull View Post
    Section 5 over here unfortunately..
    Are you sure? What about Westlake and Anvil conversions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrysmith View Post
    Are you sure? What about Westlake and Anvil conversions?
    they are still muzzle loaders where as the bp conversion is actual cf brass cases in cylinde
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    westlake are still loaded from the front into the cylinder and i believe use shotgun primers to ignite which are still percussion.
    the bp conversion cylinder is strengthened and as a separate piece at the rear where they are 6 individual firing pins which are activated by the original percussion hammer
    Last edited by loiner1965; 20-04-2020 at 06:17 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrysmith View Post
    Are you sure? What about Westlake and Anvil conversions?
    Quote Originally Posted by loiner1965 View Post
    they are still muzzle loaders where as the bp conversion is actual cf brass cases in cylinder
    Ah ok. When the 209 shotgun primers were mentioned it confused me as this is what the aforementioned conversions use.

    Ps You could have your 1858 converted to nitro

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    My mistake, as already mentioned, the back plate part of the conversions I referred to has firing pins and does not take shotgun primers. Sorry for causing confusion there, don’t know why I said that. I have edited my post above to avoid any more confusion...
    Last edited by vbull; 21-04-2020 at 09:06 AM.
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