. "People say this rifle does not look like any historic rifles. They have never seen the beautiful work of Albrecht, Reedy, Palm, et.al. from the old pennsyvania days. The Frontier is almost exactly the same shape." I assume you are speaking of the Pedorsoli gun, which is raher popular and well priced for a production gun but they are in no way a replica of any particular school they do share the lines and some features of some of the late flintlock guns from a couple of schools but are very "generic" (not to be read bad) the Pedorsoli people usually claim their guns are from the "Golden Age" of the longrifle and date this from 1760-1840 a bit of research will shed some educational light on that statement, there is only one surviving example of an Albrecth gun and it is nothing like the Frontier these guns are good entry level longrifles but should in no way be considered "replicas" in the sense that the Chambers, TOW kits, and even the TVM offerings are, they are not much more correct than the TC Hawken is a replica of the guns made famous by the brothers from St. Louis though the Pedorsoli guns are a click above as far as being PC. once again I am not condeming these guns but they should be put in perspective as to their closeness to the originals and there is much more than general shape to consider. If my humble opinion is not worth its weight in powder there are some well read longtime builders who will undoubtedly concur with the above.btw I have a "Hatfiled" type gun that is a great shooter and much like some of the Cabelas/Pedorsoli guns but not quite in the replica class, and I just accept it for what it is, it is eaier in the long run to do so.
