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Zulu conversion
« on: December 10, 2020, 03:07:22 PM »
ShotGunDave posted  pictures of a Zulu conversion on the Trapdoor thread. I will post pictures of mine here. I said it needed some minor parts, and I know I have a tin of some of those parts......somewhere.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2020, 03:11:02 PM »
View of lock.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2020, 03:13:10 PM »
Hole for the Holy Water blessing. At least that is what I have always heard it was prior to being shipped off to Africa.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2020, 03:14:42 PM »
Mine is stamped "Hunter" on the barrel, as were many others.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2020, 03:16:36 PM »
The Belgian proof after being converted.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2020, 03:19:36 PM »
A former owner must have been the size of BigTed! LOP is 14-1/2" &\?
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2020, 03:56:15 PM »
Well, hooray! I found the tin of parts. The parts were in the tin alright, but I didn't know where the tin was!
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2020, 03:58:16 PM »
At the time I checked the tin, it wasn't marked. It is now!
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2020, 04:00:08 PM »
And the hidden treasures within it, has some extra "try" springs and screws as well.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2020, 03:41:43 PM »
Looks like you'll get it back into action!
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2020, 03:50:30 PM »
That's the plan; we'll have to see how it works out! L@.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2020, 06:19:20 AM »
So EM... what exactly is a zulu conversion.. I know, I dont get out much..

converted from what to what? school me sir  J*j... it is a cool looking.... Something.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2020, 08:09:26 AM »
This particular conversion was made by cutting off the breech of a French percussion musket and attaching the action/breechblock mechanism. Some muskets were rifled but I have not seen any, most were smoothbore. The British did a very similar conversion to the Enfield muskets; the Snider conversion in .577 caliber. You can find several videos on YouTube relating to these guns.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2020, 01:38:31 PM »
These guns were the only ones African natives were allowed to have. I think maybe they were imported back into the US as a cheap shotgun. Vetterli rifles were also imported as cheap hunting guns; Sears sold them for around $5-6.00 in the early 1900s.
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Re: Zulu conversion
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2021, 05:56:13 AM »
I shoot mine with 12 gauge MAG TEC brass hulls, and the old girl puts the shot out. it is a killer on squirrel's & BRIER WABBIT!
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