Military Heritage Flintlocks?
- Thread starter Ardent
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- West coast of Vancouver Island
I have two repro Brown Bessi. One from Loyalist and one MH. MH Besses are cheaper to buy, but you have to drill the touch hole. I sent the musket to a gunsmith to drill the touch hole. He found the frizzen was to soft so he hardened it. Being conscientious he removed the breech plug before drilling the touch hole and discovered there were threads on the breech that weren't covered when the plug was screwed in. He added metal to the breech plug to cover the threads, he believed that the uncovered threads would wick water back into the plug and cause rust. Now this Bess functions great. The Loyalist musket fuctions great right out of the box. With this work the muskets ended up being about the same price. The two cosmetic concerns were; 1) the stain MH uses, comes off on everything. 2)the detail on the trigger guard finial and ramrod thimbles is better on the Loyalist Bess. The only complaint I have, a little one, is the rate that these robust locks eat flints.
Hope this helps,
Hope this helps,
- Location
- West coast of Vancouver Island
Warning I am no spert. From what I have read there is little chance of getting a definate model type used by these particular troops. The Long Land Musket was produced from the 1720's up until 1790. The British Ordnance System always issued the older arms in store before issuing any of the latest pattern arms. Is was standard practice to issue older and lower quality arms to troops in foreign service. These troops could have been issued First Model Brown Bess (Long Land Pattern 1720-1790), Second Model Brown Bess (Short Land Pattern 1769) or least likely the Third Model (India Pattern 1793). Although India Pattern Besses were used in the Canadian War of Independence, War of 1812.
Hope this helps,
Hope this helps,
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