What happened with this Pedersoli stock ??

[Stantheman86]

Picked up this Pedersoli 1777 "Revolutionnaire" for about 900, had it on layaway and received it yesterday. Looks ok but someone did some weird stuff to the stock......the barrel bands are way sloppy, looks like someone sanded the stock? Or it was a kit and dude didn't know what he was doing? There was caulk under the band in an effort to tighten it.

The buttplate has some "crushed" wood around the edges like an enthusiastic Re-Enactor was doing some thump loading or demonstrating, something.....not a huge deal. Its "character " I guess.

I'm either going to try to get a stock out of Pedersoli but if it's too expensive or too much of a process , I'm just gonna wrap some scrap linen strips around the stock under the bands until they're snug , call it good and use it as a range blaster .

Given these are $1300 new , maybe 1100 if you catch a sale , I figure I saved a couple hundred since I wanted a 1777. I love that dished out stock, feels just right.

The lock is tight, doesn't look fired a lot , which doesn't really matter much to a smoothbore. I guess it's all good for a shooter. Sometimes I wonder what the hell people do to $1000 firearms......like what , someone bought this, decided to sand the forearm of the stock and also bash the butt into the ground a few hundred times......

 

[Britsmoothy]

Nothing is idiot proof!

 

[Feltwad]

It often happens with repros most wood is kiln dried if used in wet or dry climate will swell or dry further , it maybe better and cheaper to change the bands instead of the stock .
Feltwad

 

[tenngun]

People abuse stuff trying to ‘age’it or what ever. And the old saying about making things ‘fool proof’.
Howsomever, a lot of old guns were buggered up. In military folks like to have all ‘historicly correct, but you can bet that in a real campaign there was a lot of guns buggered up. There had to be more then one that the armorers had to work over
Then civilians did get their hands on these guns and could be a bit hard on them.

 

[Stantheman86]

People abuse stuff trying to ‘age’it or what ever. And the old saying about making things ‘fool proof’.
Howsomever, a lot of old guns were buggered up. In military folks like to have all ‘historicly correct, but you can bet that in a real campaign there was a lot of guns buggered up. There had to be more then one that the armorers had to work over
Then civilians did get their hands on these guns and could be a bit hard on them.

This is what I was thinking.....people get too hung up on "military issue firearms" being a certain way....I'm like, (not to mention unmentionables) I used 100 mph tape (military duck tape) to keep a pin from walking in an M4 carbine.

I'm sure some muskets back in the period , especially in Militia units were kept going with some "jim wacking".