Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz Infantry Rifle

About the Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz Infantry Rifle

The Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz Infantry Rifle is a modern black-powder muzzle-loading rifle-musket made by Davide Pedersoli, reproducing the Austrian Lorenz Model 1854 pattern used widely during the American Civil War. It is a single-shot percussion-cap arm chambered for the .54-caliber (13.9 mm) Lorenz projectile, built on a 940 mm PMG steel barrel with four-groove rifling in a right-hand twist and a one-piece walnut stock in a satin finish. Marketed as the Infantry Type II model, it is approved for reenactment and skirmish competition by the North-South Skirmish Association.

Pedersoli's reproduction revives the Austrian rifle-musket that both Union and Confederate armies imported by the hundreds of thousands, letting modern skirmishers shoot the third most common longarm of the American Civil War.

Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz Infantry Rifle specifications

Sold as model S183 (Type II). The Type II designation refers to the later Lorenz lockplate and sight pattern. The rifle is popular with N-SSA skirmishers and Civil War reenactors.