VERY GOOD GUN, IF I HAD ROOM I WOULD BUY 5 MORE

I have the Pedersoli Brown Bess and two of the Charleville muskets. I have no complaints about any of them. Again no issues with three of Pedersoli muskets. They are muskets copies not exact replicas but not many would know or care! They are fun to shoot and easily maintained. You can play Concord and Lexington all day. Don’t expect to be a marksman with them if you’re looking for spot on accuracy by one of there period rifles. That’s not to say with practice, a patched round ball; even period correct paper cartridges either ball or buck and ball you can keep it on the target. Watch Dualist54 ! Big fun musket I have an audience every time I take it to the range. If you find you have what you consider issues they are warranted. Many purchase them and tweak them to their liking. Make no mistake they work right out of the box!

Received the Brown Bess found it to be packaged well. The musket is assembled with a small bag of spare screws in the box. No missing items. The only documents are the standard general handbook nothing specific to the Brown Bess and a parts list for the Bess.
No assembly instructions.
Requires a good amount of wood and metal work
The big problem is that the ramrod thimbles are not very good. One of the middle thimbles was drilled off center and had a hole in it. The front thimble was warped. It took great effort to remove the ramrod. I’ve ordered all new ones and hopefully can do a better job…. Everything else is just fine….

When I received this item it came with crooked ramrod pipe holes causing them to be held in with very tiny amounts of wood in some places, any stress or rough handling of the ramrod, which the musket is designed to stand up to, will surely crack the stock; they also rattle around a lot. The vent hole was also positioned at the very base of the pan which isn't is grave of an error but still worth mentioning. A lot of side to side slop in the trigger is present.