This video delves into the fascinating Miller's Musket Conversion, a system developed by brothers William and George Miller in 1865 to adapt percussion muskets for rimfire ammunition. The Meridan Manufacturing Company converted approximately 2,000 US Model 1861 muskets to this system using .58 Rimfire. While the US military tested a conversion and noted issues like gas leakage and misfires, leading to no further Army interest, some state militias did acquire these converted firearms. The video explores this historical firearm modification and its context within the transition to new ammunition technologies.
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