Why do you think they are cheap, anon?
Do you think it's because they use master craftsmen and carefully tolerance their stocks and locks to make the best gun possible?
Or do you think they cut every corner possible to make them cheaply and easily?
Middlesex trading company is a grumpy boomer that makes his entire living making those guns not suck.
Word is they're kind of clubby and have a bowling-ball finish on them, and black powder reenactors will disassemble and strip them down until they are nice and slim and pretty like the period pieces, and give them a natural oil finish. The locks are hand forged and spark well. That said, for quality you probably want the kit from Pedersoli, which will set you back almost a grand.
If it is simply a good flintlock of musket bore you want, everybody recommends the kits from Jim Chambers.
You can build one from a kit, a lot of old wooden rifles, with your own varnish or paint. Or you can buy one by a gunsmith, who often sells their materials as kits. A single shot rifle with normal cartridges is another good traditional hunting implement.
A mordern inline powder rifle with a glass scope and those plastic pre-loaded charges is what I'd prefer over a musket or something like a Kentucky rifle.
But one can bag a deer with this flintlock on some cool January morning, stalking the misty forests with the dawn rising and the morning chorus of the birds, with one shot and one shot only to shoot and kill your game. That is some redneck shit.
Asking here because it's a QTDDOT :
Where's a good place to get a SMLE, and what should I be looking for to get a quality one?
My understanding is the Mk.3s are actually better build quality than the wartime mk.4s, is that right?
Pedersoli's are pretty good, if you want better than that you should either wait for a really nice used one, or get one from a custom shop.
Pedersoli is nice, but quite expensive. Are the Indian-made muskets at Veteran Arms LLC and Military Heritage that bad?
Why do you think they are cheap, anon?
Do you think it's because they use master craftsmen and carefully tolerance their stocks and locks to make the best gun possible?
Or do you think they cut every corner possible to make them cheaply and easily?
Middlesex trading company is a grumpy boomer that makes his entire living making those guns not suck.
I get that they are cheap for a reason, but for a casual shooter such as myself is there really that much I have to worry about?
So you don't actually want a quality replica of a brown bess, do you?
You want the absolute cheapest thing that's kind of like a brown bess available.
Who else other than Pedersoli makes a quality brown bess?
I already answered that question.
what "custom shops" do you know of?
http://therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/english_arms/(542).htm
Word is they're kind of clubby and have a bowling-ball finish on them, and black powder reenactors will disassemble and strip them down until they are nice and slim and pretty like the period pieces, and give them a natural oil finish. The locks are hand forged and spark well. That said, for quality you probably want the kit from Pedersoli, which will set you back almost a grand.
If it is simply a good flintlock of musket bore you want, everybody recommends the kits from Jim Chambers.
>Pedersoli's are pretty good
Any estimate on prices there?
$1600+ pre-made
Kits are cheaper, but will test your patience and craftsmanship.
Have you tried googling likely search terms?
You can build one from a kit, a lot of old wooden rifles, with your own varnish or paint. Or you can buy one by a gunsmith, who often sells their materials as kits. A single shot rifle with normal cartridges is another good traditional hunting implement.
A mordern inline powder rifle with a glass scope and those plastic pre-loaded charges is what I'd prefer over a musket or something like a Kentucky rifle.
But one can bag a deer with this flintlock on some cool January morning, stalking the misty forests with the dawn rising and the morning chorus of the birds, with one shot and one shot only to shoot and kill your game. That is some redneck shit.
Cause old wood flintlocks are some real ye olde shit like hunnerds a years a go, still a functional hunting weapon
Asking here because it's a QTDDOT :
Where's a good place to get a SMLE, and what should I be looking for to get a quality one?
My understanding is the Mk.3s are actually better build quality than the wartime mk.4s, is that right?
saw this one for 440
solid bolt action rifle
major tech advancement
I've been looking for a kentucky long rifle myself but they're all super expensive