NEW SSS MEMBER El Tio Loco - Exact Match Serial #

[Two Flints]

Hi El Tio Loco,

I checked on your Spencer Carbine serial # 19489 in my SRS Books.  I found an exact match   Serial # 19489, a Spencer Carbine, was issued to a member of Company G, 12th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry on March 2nd, 1864.

Take care of it, fix it up and shoot it and relive the Civil War!

Please post photos of it for us to see or send them to me and I will post them for you . . . use my Email address that you used today.

Two Flints

[El Tio Loco]

Thanks Two Flints for that amazing information.  Wow, 12th Illinois...........it coulda been at Yellow Tavern...........Wow!

This Spencer is pretty rough, I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them.  As bad as the carbine looks,  the bore is in shootable shape.  I will replace the missing parts but I don't know if it will ever be shot again.

El Tio Loco

[El Tio Loco]

Here are a couple of pictures of my new Spencer. 
The wear on the left side of the stock is bewildering.  I have seen saddle guns with wear but not to this extreme. 
It's going to take a little more than some touching up with cold blue and rubbing some linseed oil on.  Maybe I will put it on Gunbroker as a "Minty" Spencer. 

Ken

[El Tio Loco]

Two more pictures.

The action works as it should and the bore is not too bad.  The bore mics to .516 and has three grooves.  The barrel is 22 inches.
It's missing the magazine and the rear sight and a few of the screws are buggered up.

Ken