ENFIELD SERGEANT’S GUN TOOL

ENFIELD SERGEANT’S GUN TOOL

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Item Code: 2026-940

The British army did not believe enlistedmen below the rank of sergeant could be trusted not to mess around with their guns and restricted issue of these T-shaped combination gun-tools (and their earlier Y-shaped cousins) to sergeants who could then perform or at least supervise any field maintenance. See Shaffer, Rutledge and Dorsey, Gun Tools, and Pritchard, Huey et al., The English Connection, for details on these tools, which were necessary tools for maintaining P53 Enfields, imported in large quantities by both sides in the Civil War. This one shows use, but retains a lot of its original blue. The ball puller, which screwed into the bottom of the tool is missing. The wiper, screwed onto one arm of the screwdriver, seems to be one of the unknown foreign patterns pictured in Gun Tools V.1, p.114-115, so a soldier armed with a different import arm may have been improvising in the field.   [jet][ph:L]

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