-
Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.
We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.
Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103
Excellent article on Brown Bess development.
- Thread starter All Hell
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
Excellent and most informative post and here are eight{8} additional sources which I recommend very highly as supplemental material:
1."Red Coat and Brown Bess" by Anthony D Darling,HISTORICAL ARMS SERIES No.12
2."Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783 by De Witt Bailey,Ph.D.
3."British Military Longarms 1715-1815" by D.W. Bailey
4."British Military Longarms 1815-1865" by D.W.Bailey
5."The Socket Bayonet In The British Army 1687-1783" by Erik Goldstein
6."Battle Weapons of the American Revolution"by George C. Neuman
7."History of the Weapons of the American Revolution" by George C. Neuman
8."Collector's Illustrated Encylopedia of the American Revolution" by George C. Neuman and Frank J. Kravic
Tom Patton
1."Red Coat and Brown Bess" by Anthony D Darling,HISTORICAL ARMS SERIES No.12
2."Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783 by De Witt Bailey,Ph.D.
3."British Military Longarms 1715-1815" by D.W. Bailey
4."British Military Longarms 1815-1865" by D.W.Bailey
5."The Socket Bayonet In The British Army 1687-1783" by Erik Goldstein
6."Battle Weapons of the American Revolution"by George C. Neuman
7."History of the Weapons of the American Revolution" by George C. Neuman
8."Collector's Illustrated Encylopedia of the American Revolution" by George C. Neuman and Frank J. Kravic
Tom Patton
RussB
45 Cal.
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2004
- Messages
- 882
- Reaction score
- 13
Just a bit more on the Ol'Brown Bess.....
(The following was "lifted" from a web page...I have taken a lot of it out, in an effort to show the Bess)
The 21st. World Muzzleloading Championship held from August 22 to 28, 2004 in Batesville, Indiana, U.S.A ........
The guns that have conquered the podium are already part of a legend and their names are going to be everlasting: Le Page and Mortimer pistols, Brown Bess and 1777 muskets, Bristlen Morges, Tryon Creedmoor and Mortimer rifles. Really accurate guns, produced by a company already famous for it's quality, accuracy and medal winning capabilities.
.......snip.....................
One of the new entries has been the Pedersoli-Pennsylvania competition for the flintlock rifle, which is fired in the standing position, at the 50 meter target. This is a discipline sponsored by Pedersoli Company, which by the Pennsylvania name, is known at national level in Italy and with some variations is also known in other European countries.
...........snip..........
The Brown Bess and the 1777 model muskets won the gold and the silver medals with Noel Risch and the American John Mariani, while the Bristlen Morges rifle dominated in the Vetterli winning all the three medals by Walter Massing, Huges Alvernhe and the Austrian Andreas Gassner. Bristlen Morges rifle also swept the podium with gold, silver and bronze in the Pforzheim discipline by the German Team, the French one with Jean-Luc Mainchin and by the Austrian Team.
............snip.......................
Still using a Mortimer, but loaded for shot gun competition, winning the gold medals in the three clay pigeon target shooting competitions: the German Franz Lotspeich, with the score 49/50 in the Manton, also for winning the gold medal of his team in the Hawker discipline. In this same Hawker discipline the silver medal went to France, while in the Lorenzoni discipline another French shooter, Morgan Roussel, won the bronze medal.
(The following was "lifted" from a web page...I have taken a lot of it out, in an effort to show the Bess)
The 21st. World Muzzleloading Championship held from August 22 to 28, 2004 in Batesville, Indiana, U.S.A ........
The guns that have conquered the podium are already part of a legend and their names are going to be everlasting: Le Page and Mortimer pistols, Brown Bess and 1777 muskets, Bristlen Morges, Tryon Creedmoor and Mortimer rifles. Really accurate guns, produced by a company already famous for it's quality, accuracy and medal winning capabilities.
.......snip.....................
One of the new entries has been the Pedersoli-Pennsylvania competition for the flintlock rifle, which is fired in the standing position, at the 50 meter target. This is a discipline sponsored by Pedersoli Company, which by the Pennsylvania name, is known at national level in Italy and with some variations is also known in other European countries.
...........snip..........
The Brown Bess and the 1777 model muskets won the gold and the silver medals with Noel Risch and the American John Mariani, while the Bristlen Morges rifle dominated in the Vetterli winning all the three medals by Walter Massing, Huges Alvernhe and the Austrian Andreas Gassner. Bristlen Morges rifle also swept the podium with gold, silver and bronze in the Pforzheim discipline by the German Team, the French one with Jean-Luc Mainchin and by the Austrian Team.
............snip.......................
Still using a Mortimer, but loaded for shot gun competition, winning the gold medals in the three clay pigeon target shooting competitions: the German Franz Lotspeich, with the score 49/50 in the Manton, also for winning the gold medal of his team in the Hawker discipline. In this same Hawker discipline the silver medal went to France, while in the Lorenzoni discipline another French shooter, Morgan Roussel, won the bronze medal.
