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Looks like fun to me!
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Manton was THE maker of his day, many if not most of the next and better known generation, such as Purdey apprenticed to him. You will likely find the dimensions to be shootable, the British rarely had the dog leg drop of older American pieces.
As with any old piece, the question is the barrels, but if it is sound, everything to shoot it is still available. circle fly still makes the wads and card in any bore size. I am in the process of repairing a lock issue on one by another maker. A 14 bore, looking forward to hunting with it.
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Wonderful gun, I just sold a 16ga that I had for 10+ years. A pleasure to shoot but a b#$^ to clean.
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I reenacted the French and Indian war for years, hunt deer with flintlock longrifles, and have a flintlock single fowler, that is not a chore that bothers me. But I do see where some would prefer to avoid it.
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Thanks all. I will see what further info the seller can provide about the barrels. Should I end up going down this path, I'll have some more to learn. Never shot a muzzle loader anything. I suppose the platinum blow out plug is to help first timer errors??
Should this be a shootable firearm, approximately where in the K$ scale might be considered a reasonable offer? Had a look at some GB listings but none were as ornate as this one. Thanks, Jack
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nice looking gun...muzzle loaders are fun to shoot and hunt with... them old manton guns are about as good as it gets and this one looks ok in my book...price of the manton will depend weather its on your side of the border or ours... should be cheaper in the usa...my guess would be about 750.00 jack and that will be pretty close if the guys really trying to sell it....charlie
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Make sure it has British proofs, says London and looks to nice to be otherwise but Manton was one of the names the Belgiums used to sell guns. Prices very a lot, is it cased? with accessories? Most good maker percussion SxSs I have seen were good mid grade guns and sold for under a grand to just over. I have seen asking prices into the 5 figures for perfect high grade examples. sometimes there are bargins Muzzleloaders are not that hard to learn, basically, its reloading in a barrel rather than a shell casing as the old horn I once saw advised "of all the rules you must recall powder first, then the ball"
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I used to have a Manton similar to that one. Check the bores with a very small flashlight that you can slip down the barrels. A wall thickness check would not be a bad idea either. Mine was an 11 gauge or thereabouts. Use wads one gauge up so they will be snug in the bores. #2 black powder will do it. Have fun. Oh, and make sure it's unloaded. Measure your ramrod along the outside of the barrels, and then reference that when you slide the rod inside the barrels. You'd be surprised how many have been loaded for years. I did that when I got mine and found a bunch of old wadded up newspaper at the breeches.
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