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Well, there are a number of very excellent references that often enough get into the minutiae of probably the most popular musket ever devised. So go spend $70 combined and get Goldstein and Baileys last books. Then you tell me how the wood to metal finish is on many of the originals after...

I could pick them out correctly every time. Might ask Dave Person about the British ordnance standards and the overall quality of originals.

Juried events that cater to the 10% that do it correctly. I know those exist. I was invited to many when I did this stuff. And you last paragraph is just plain dumb. If I don’t know, I have no problems asking. And I know they had a lot of stuff we don’t commonly think of. Had that part figured...

And it’s also true. As much as you harp about documenting everything, but you defend the “if they had it, they would use it” crowd. 90% of reenactors are farbs, and the more easily an era is to document the worst it gets.

My sample was quite large. 10 years large, multiple eras. Pulling stuff out of my back side really is not my style. There are much better options than Indian or Italian muskets, and you have been around long enough to know that.

Reenactors liking something is not always a ringing endorsement. 9 of 10 of them don’t know much beyond what a vendor tells them. Most reenacting is merely camping in funny clothing.

Yup. The other post was cornfusing

You can have em. I like my women shaped like women, not a planet.

Translation please.

I don’t want to see a fake India gun. I want to know the info on an original of that designation. From what little I can find, French style stocks didn’t become a thing on Spanish muskets until a couple decades later at the absolute earliest.

What exactly is a model 1706?

Except the 2 barrel bands (common) and the different shape of the lock plate. And it’s certainly not early 18th century. Cut that stock to a Catalan style and it would be more believable as an early pre 1752 musket.

The earliest Spanish musket commonly known of is the model 1752, which used a French style lock and 3 barrel bands similar to the French arms. The same style was changed back to a miquelet style in 1791. The lock on this particular musket seems to be copied from a Catalan civilian fowler from...

You could build one.

But what is it supposed to be a replica of?

The only long land Bess that stayed production close to the 1790s was the P1755 in limited numbers. This is the only place I know that lists either of these models. http://therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/prints_drawings/(prints_drawings).htm

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Square or round patches make no difference. However I would suggest you use a combo that just removes the slop. If you use .020 patches (as an example) get a ball that is .040 smaller than bore size. There is no rifling to fill or engrave the ball in a fowler, no no real need for anything more...

Leave it. It’s a reproduction of a military musket, not a piece of art.

Up the charge until you get where you want.