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Yet the originals in France seem to have them. As did the originals that Moller owned. Add to that every single researcher of French arms in general adamantly says top flats were common on French barrels without wedding band transitions. Kevin Gladysz even mentions the top flat on the Fusil...

As an update. In Bianchi’s French Military Small Arms Vol 1, page 21, he lists that the side flats are 4.5”, the top flat of the 1728 musket extends all the way to the bayonet lug. On page 25, he lists the side flats at 8”, the top flat on the 1746 as going to within 5” of the “front sight.”...

Just exactly what is a coach gun? Blunderbuss, double barrel fowler, regular fowler, a brace of pistols?

Vasaline is a brand of petroleum jelly, which is paraffin grease. None of the paraffin products react adversely with BP soot.

No. I think he listed something like 45”. I’ll look again when I get home. I’ll even look and see what he listed the 1754 as.

Started using Ballistol in 2016. On everything, guns and work tools. I don’t have rust issues.

What is funny is that Moller’s 1746 has 8” flats and a top flat that is full length to the bayonet stud.

Just looked it up. Moller’s 1728 has 7” flats, except the top flat carried forward to 33”

That is another option.

I have thought about ordering one and building a generic COS musket someday.

What is the story of that lock marking?

Moller lists flat lengths and sighting plane for the 1728. I’ll look them up later. The barrel is also 47” +/- long.

Used hard until broken, then serviceable parts were reused until we moved away from the Charleville pattern in 1816, even then they stayed in service until sufficient 1816 muskets were available. I know it’s hard to believe, but our government used to be frugal.

“Trade gun” is a very broad subject. It would be much easier to advise if you favored a style or 2 and time frame.

Why would I buy a book when I’ve already experimented very similarly? Once I found the ball/patch combo my rifles liked, the lube didn’t really effect much outside a reasonable margin of error.

Try that exact same test using all the same patch material instead of the wide variety you showed in your images. It’s most likely the patch ball combo.

Except when they dry, the water evaporates and the oil is left behind, at which point the mix ratio will matter not at all. All those patches were pure Ballistol.

I would recommend getting a piece of round stock and practicing on that until you get good at it.

You might want to do just a tad bit more research on that. Do you even own any references on the Brown Bess musket?

Yes you can draw file a round barrel. Just gotta be thorough and pay attention to detail.