Well Dick, that was disappointing : ( It is a beautiful rifle though. Maybe SRS will have something on it. It looked to have some dust or some left over burn powder in the bore. I asked the salesman to look at it and he thought it may be pitting. Got home ran a patch down the bore and not a mark, pit, scratch just a shinny deeply rifled bore!!!
The other rifle had many issues to the point that I would not buy it even if I needed to fill a hole in my collection. NOW!!! what next??
I did see a 1865 short rifle on gun broker for 1550.00 I believe it is in your neck of the woods. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/842359288