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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.

RobD:
Work on Bessie has begun, slowly but surely.  It's all about the stock and its shortcomings.  As Brown Bess expert Dave Persons states, none of the commercial Bess offerings are true to any model or pattern Bess.  Getting the huge amount of proud wood removed is the first effort, then contouring specific parts to better align with a real Bess follows.

Two deep gashes in the butt stock were filled with slow set epoxy that I stained with LMF walnut, then sanded and scraped - it'll all blend in when finish is applied..  LOTS more rasping, sanding, and scraping to complete, this will take weeks.

Bigsmoke:
I would have expected better from Pedersoli.

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