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Posted by Marty Klier
on 3/26/2009, 8:55 am, in reply to "santa fe/uberti"
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Jim;
The gun is .53 calibre and it should shoot a .520 round ball. The mold I have is made by Palmetto Armory, and is double cavity, I am not aware of any manufacture that makes .520 round balls. The number on the tang is where the gun falls in the 1 in 1,000 sequence. Uberti made kit guns from the same molds as the 1 in 1,000 series but they had no numbers stamped on the tang. If yours has numbers stamped on the tang, it is a 1 in 1,000 gun, and is not a kit gun. I hope this helps.
Marty Klier
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: Hi ive got a 54 cal. muzzleloader its kind of
: old i think? It was my dads it says on the
: top of the berrle "WESTERN ARMS CORP.
: SANTA FE N.M. JEDEDIA SMITH 1799-1831"
: AND ON THE SIDE OF THE BERRLE IT SAYS
: "597 54 CAL". It has the UBERTI
: insignia stampt on the bottom. Ther is a
: difrint number on the berrle tang. The bor
: is slightly smaller then a 54 we have ben
: toled a few times that it is a 52 cal. bore.
: So im guessing it is a Uberti? do you know
: the value of this gun? its not realy browned
: or blued its kind of plum colerd my dad
: bought this from a preacher frind of his and
: was told he( the preacher) put it together
: as a kit i think? still shoots good it dos
: not have the original sights on it it has
: true glow sight on it my dad got so he cant
: see the blade sight any more. We have also
: had trouble finding round balls or conicals
: the right size can some one help with this?
: Tanks, Jim
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