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Historical accuracy to a point is always open for debate, and points of view.
I’ve seen terrible gunmakers with huge gaps around lock plates and trigger guards excuse their poor workmanship because well... they saw an original with similar gaps.
I’ve even seen one gunmaker copy a pedersoli Brown Bess stock with an extra 4 inches on it, called it a 1755 era long land Brown Bess.
Educated research from well known authors and researchers and basing your work off of those researches is the only real way to get an accurate build.
Could pedersoli make a copy of a more accurate brown bess, probably yes but as Dave mentioned, there’s no money in it.
I’ve seen terrible gunmakers with huge gaps around lock plates and trigger guards excuse their poor workmanship because well... they saw an original with similar gaps.
I’ve even seen one gunmaker copy a pedersoli Brown Bess stock with an extra 4 inches on it, called it a 1755 era long land Brown Bess.
Educated research from well known authors and researchers and basing your work off of those researches is the only real way to get an accurate build.
Could pedersoli make a copy of a more accurate brown bess, probably yes but as Dave mentioned, there’s no money in it.