Bessie

[RobD]

The Pedersoli 2nd Pattern Short Land musket "kit" arrived.  It's not really a kit as it's fully built and can be shot as is, just needs the wood to be rasped, sanded, and oil finished.  On a scale of poor-fair-good-excellent I'll call it a "good plus" and so far worth the $1268 shipped to my door from DGW.  As expected, the touch hole is very low to the pan as has been reported by all who have this musket, but all say the ignition is quite good (as I have seen).  I expect at least 2-3 days of wood working and then decide whether to just Tru-Oil or stain before oiling.  I plan to load and shoot paper cartridges with it for reenactment with the 3rd New Jersey Regiment "Jersey Blues". https://www.jerseyblues1776.org/ - shown below with .575 cartridges for the Kibler .62 bore fowler.

[rollingb]

.62 or .75? 

[RobD]

.75 bore that will get .69 cartridges once the Lee mold arrives.

The .575 cartridges are for the .62 Kibler fowler.