Pedersoli Jaeger or (future?) Baker?

[John Spartan]

Looking to make my (almost certainly last) flintlock purchase.
Have plenty of smoothbores and want to get something rifled with a expectation of accuracy.
Was waiting for the (mythical?) up and coming Pedersoli Baker and also looked at the Baker kits from TRS. Then started looking at the Pedersoli Jaeger kits. Even the Scout.
Besides some dimensional differences and caliber (and real history) am I missing something? What is the *functional* difference between a Jaeger and a Baker? Some will deny the (to me undeniable) lineage but they look like gun brothers to me.

 

[Spartan64]

The Baker rifle is a direct descendant from German "Jaeger" rifles. The British Army adopted the P-1776 as the Revolution kicked off in America, ordering 200 Rifles from a Gunmaker in Hannover Germany and making that the pattern for an additional 800 infantry rifles. These were too costly and labor intensive for mass production but saw service in the War of Independence with Loyalist rifleman and some British specialists.

Around 1800 the British Ordinance Board commissioned the Baker rifle, which was much cheaper and easier to produce than German hunting rifles or the P-1776. The Baker prototype was based on a Brown Bess; the Ordinance Board provided Ezekial Baker a German Jaeger rifle and instructed him to modify his original idea into something closer to a Jaeger.

Aside from caliber, the only functional difference is that most Jaegers hunting rifles had a precisely tuned set trigger, while the Baker initially used a standard Brown Bess lock and had a much heavier single trigger.

 

[springfield art]

The Pattern 1776 looks like a Brown Bess and a Jaeger had a baby....I know a retired re-enactor that has an old Rifle Shoppe P1776 which he may sell in future. I'm keeping an eye on him!

 

[SDSmlf]

Then started looking at the Pedersoli Jaeger kits. Even the Scout.
Besides some dimensional differences and caliber (and real history) am I missing something? What is the *functional* difference between a Jaeger and a Baker? Some will deny the (to me undeniable) lineage but they look like gun brothers to me.

I had the chance to shoot a Pedersoli Jaeger flintlock and while it functioned fine, it just didn’t have that Jaeger feel or handle like one. Barrel heavy and on the wrong side of 8 pounds. Felt more like a full stock plains rifle. Only had chance to shoot conicals out of it.

I have a Pedersoli Scout in 32 caliber with both the flint and percussion locks, and with light roundball loads in it’s short 13/16” barrel it is quite pleasant to shoot at squirrel hunting distances.