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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3919359" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p>No real idea as to the age of these items as two of them were picked up off of an old battlefield. (At least, supposedly from an old battle field.) A friend and I had taken a 3-day pass from our base in Pakistan and went up to Kabul, Afghanistan. We were fortunate that we could stay with other Army personnel that were stationed to the embassy there.</p><p></p><p>The local Afghans would go out and pick up old weapons from past battles and "rebuild" them to sell. A number of our fellow soldiers had come back from Kabul with full length cap and ball muskets. I stumbled upon this "carbine-style" cap and ball rifle and sword, which were both supposed to have been rescued from the earth. I imagine the rifle has a new stock, and perhaps the same for the saber's scabbard. The shield is a modern knock-off because the ones taken from the battlefields were in really bad shape, although one with dents from sabers might have been neat.</p><p></p><p>As soon as we got back to the home of the GI we were staying with, he took the weapon and pulled out the ramrod and stuck it down the barrel. It seems that in the past, some of the embassy GI's would put on a cap and "fire-off" the weapons, and one guy allowed his child to shoot the cap and ball pistol. Only that time, the ball in the weapon had been dislodged enough to actually fire the ball out. The GI supposedly got the ball in his shoulder.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous-Photos-for-Sharing/i-3KvXGzn/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous-Photos-for-Sharing/i-3KvXGzn/0/81c616e1/X2/IMG_20210708_133555123-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 3919359, member: 7900"] No real idea as to the age of these items as two of them were picked up off of an old battlefield. (At least, supposedly from an old battle field.) A friend and I had taken a 3-day pass from our base in Pakistan and went up to Kabul, Afghanistan. We were fortunate that we could stay with other Army personnel that were stationed to the embassy there. The local Afghans would go out and pick up old weapons from past battles and "rebuild" them to sell. A number of our fellow soldiers had come back from Kabul with full length cap and ball muskets. I stumbled upon this "carbine-style" cap and ball rifle and sword, which were both supposed to have been rescued from the earth. I imagine the rifle has a new stock, and perhaps the same for the saber's scabbard. The shield is a modern knock-off because the ones taken from the battlefields were in really bad shape, although one with dents from sabers might have been neat. As soon as we got back to the home of the GI we were staying with, he took the weapon and pulled out the ramrod and stuck it down the barrel. It seems that in the past, some of the embassy GI's would put on a cap and "fire-off" the weapons, and one guy allowed his child to shoot the cap and ball pistol. Only that time, the ball in the weapon had been dislodged enough to actually fire the ball out. The GI supposedly got the ball in his shoulder. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous-Photos-for-Sharing/i-3KvXGzn/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous-Photos-for-Sharing/i-3KvXGzn/0/81c616e1/X2/IMG_20210708_133555123-X2.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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