For anyone considering an Indian manufactured Flintlock

[tenngun]

I could pick them out correctly every time.

Might ask Dave Person about the British ordnance standards and the overall quality of originals.

Maybe you could, but I doubt 95% of us could.
Can you show me a better wood to metal fit in an origanal, show me a tougher barrel
Back in the day it was written that a kings musket could hit the figure of a man at eighty yards ….if not exceedingly illy bored…. As many of them are.
It was commented tat as much as a ten percent failure to fire rate was common,
My Indian gun will hit the figure of a man at one hundred yards ever time and at a hundred and fifty half the time
I’m willing to bet my barrel is safer and better bored then a great portion of kings muskets

 

[Clark Badgett]

Maybe you could, but I doubt 95% of us could.
Can you show me a better wood to metal fit in an origanal, show me a tougher barrel
Back in the day it was written that a kings musket could hit the figure of a man at eighty yards ….if not exceedingly illy bored…. As many of them are.
It was commented tat as much as a ten percent failure to fire rate was common,
My Indian gun will hit the figure of a man at one hundred yards ever time and at a hundred and fifty half the time
I’m willing to bet my barrel is safer and better bored then a great portion of kings muskets

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 210-260ish years and real campaigns later.

And go run some .690” balls down your .77” barrel and tell me how many targets you hit at 150 yds.

Sitting and publicly admitting that you are toting around a grossly inaccurately built gun is not a good way to convince me that reenactors are usually quite farby.