Current options for a long land pattern bess?

[FlinterNick]

Sure it’s great if you have $3000 & 2 years to wait for TRS or a custom gunbuilder.

Anybody try Access Heritage? I bought a 3rd model Brown Bess for $549. Fit and finish isn't all that great but I've seen worse. The cool thing is they are shipped without the flash hole drilled. That way they are not firearms.

I recently viewed and held a military heritage 1728 Charleville at the Baltimore guns Show.

Not much to say about it, nothing was correct about the gun.

The stock is oversized and not much can be done to correct this issue along the forearm because the bands are also oversized, just not worth the labor.

It could be defarbed as a french 1728 Wall gun, the heavy barrel could be reamed to .80 caliber like many french wall guns were.

The french 1717 and 1728 Amussetts (mind my spelling). We’re simply larger patterns of their infantry guns, and many were rifled. Designed to take out enemy artillery positions. These were not nearly as large as the British and Dutch Wall guns.
They weight of these varried between 15-20 lbs which was mostly in the barrel.


Custom guns don’t have to cost that much.

Tell the builder what you want done to the gun, you could have the stock semi assembled and unfinished for a project that might cost you around $800.

The cost gets high when you want the finer details completed for you, such as stock carvings, metal finishing and stock finishing.

The metal finishing is what takes up most of the time and costs.