Old post, yes ... just everyone be aware ... that TRS is no longer doing complete builds for anybody - completed lock builds only.Old thread I know. There's just one option for obtaining a quality 1800 pattern Baker rifle. That's the parts set offered by The Rifle Shoppe. Build it yourself or have it done. You'll love the results. Here's mine, built by The Rifle Shoppe. It's one of just a few made with a left-hand lock. It was ordered with the only two options offered, a browned barrel and English walnut stock:
Welcome. What do you consider "proper" rifling?
Currently there are commercially made barrels for the Baker Rifle which are 1:66 twist rate, but none other than a custom barrel come in the 1:120 twist rate as specified by Captain Barber in The Duke of Cumberland's Corps of Sharp-Shooters ; Instructions for the Formation and Exercise of Volunteer Sharp-Shooters c. 1804.
Some Baker rifles are sold smooth bore for lower costs, and some are sold that way as the major market is in Europe for those rifles, and many of those countries will not allow the importation of a rifled piece without a lot of paperwork.
The site that you referenced provides "copies" of Baker rifles fashioned in India, and while they would be good for historic reenactment they would not be called "quality copies".
You are probably looking at having something made from Rifle Shoppe parts.
LD
Well actually you'd probably want the 1:66 twist rate even if you could go back in time and get an original just coming out of the maker's shop.The 1:66 twist was chosen by The Rifle Shoppe for its inherent accuracy. Even if you specify the more original 1/120 rate, you're not going to get a true Ordnance pattern barrel.
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