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    Documented "musket" explosion

    That's an odd story. First it says the musket exploded while one man was loading the musket, then it says three men were "trying to load and fire the musket" before finally telling readers that the deceased fired the weapon which then exploded and killed him. How many men were loading the...
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    Finished snaphaunce

    That is quite an attractive piece.
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    Brown Bess Carbine...

    Paul, If you'd like to disagree with Mike's conclusions regarding British carbines, I would suggest citing some source on the subject rather than just reciting a bunch of unrelated anecdotal stories. I'm not sure when you studied history, but when I was majoring in the subject, we learned...
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    Brown Bess Carbine...

    Some were indeed musket bore (.75 caliber) but they still used different locks and furniture.
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    Brown Bess Carbine...

    Most nations in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries were making carbines based on their current pattern of musket. One of the main differences was the scale. It wasn't just a shorter barrel, the locks, stocks and furniture were smaller as well. This might not be noticeable in a photograph.
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    Bayonet question?

    Even so, the amount of documentation for soldiers cooking with their ramrods for just the ACW era is staggering. It was a very widespread practice.
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    Bayonet question?

    Bayonets have all manner of uses to reenactors that the original soldiers would have found as well. They are great for placing and removing cookware on a fire, they make excellent candle holders, they can be used to dig, club snakes, and are quite useful as tent stakes or otherwise erecting a...
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    How Not To Shoot a flintlock Pistol

    Click this link or search the title of this thread. How Not to shoot a flintlock pistol.
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    Burst barrel

    Can't say it better than that.
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    Spanish Escopeta

    This site has some pretty good pics of Spanish arms: http://www.armia-eibar.net/armas/arma_larga Way back in the Bicentennial days, there was a repro made of what I believe is the 1757 Spanish musket. There are a few floating around today, but I've never seen one on sale. TOTW had an...
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    Lab Report on blown India musket

    Rawr! Sorry I couldn't check out Enfields in the 1860's, but I wasn't quite born yet. Anyhow, the gun wasn't trashed, but there were some areas where the workmanship wasn't quite what was expected. Outside of Afghanistan, where have Enfields seen 80 years of use?
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    Lab Report on blown India musket

    A friend of mine sold his repro Italian Enfield and bought an original. He was quite surprised at the difference in craftsmanship between the two. He was mainly surprised because the original was so much rougher than the repro. When we were looking at it together, we didn't use the...
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    Identified, unknown British Musket

    It looks like a dressed-up Brunswick Rifle.
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    Shooting Indian Imports

    The problem is, it gets more complicated. I can think of three more off the top of my head, and there are probably more. I've always found the lack of important details in the burst barrel case to be odd, to say the least. We never heard where the musket was purchased, and no follow-up...
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    PERCUSSION fowler question.......

    It would be much cheaper to have an interchangeable conversion that will allow you to just switch locks on the same gun.
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    Anybody know what this is?

    (post trimmed) I do believe you answered your own question here.
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    Indian Imports

    Didn't you say before that the barrel was cracked? Where did the cracks go? Also, why is the vendor's name deleted on that email you posted? I've never heard who sold the defective Bess, but I believe you did imply at least once that it was MVT.
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    Indian Imports

    That's actually not too much more than what they're wanting to charge for a new Pedersoli these days. Of course, they're not nearly worth the price. I would think it should be possible to manufacture acceptably authentic and safe reproduction military smoothbore muskets on a mass scale for...
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    Indian Imports

    They're of a quality that's too high to be priced competitively for your average military gun? There are at least a few foreign made repros that are decent enough to be a good value. Just curious, how much should an American made US 1816 musket repro cost, Mike?
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    Brown Bess lock question

    Besses don't have any barrel bands, the barrel is pinned to the stock. That goes for all models. Charlevilles did have 3 barrel bands, and the reproductions reflect this. Of course, I'm not really sure what you've been looking at. Try to take some pics, and if you can't, at least try to read...
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