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June 29, 2014, 07:58 PM
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brown bess trigger
Anyone have ideas on lightening the trigger pull on a Bess? Its at around 9 pounds now.
Thanks
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June 29, 2014, 08:21 PM
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I have just stoned the mating surfaces. Be careful to only polish and not change angles. Gunslinger
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June 29, 2014, 08:57 PM
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A heavy trigger pull would be annoying, but authentic. The originals often ran that much or more.
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June 30, 2014, 08:18 AM
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It is definitely a safe trigger. I plan to hunt with it, but as for now, I'm playing with loads to find the best. For a smoothbore, accuracy isn't bad. I could take deer sized game at 50 yards or so.
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July 1, 2014, 08:32 AM
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Professor Lawrence Babits wrote Devil of a Whipping and tells the story of Daniel Morgan's defeat of Tarleton at Cowpens. Anyway, with practice Babits used his reproduction Bess to hit a man sized target placed at 75 yards five out of six times. Unlike the British soldier of the Revolutionary War, Babits practiced before going for the record.
Polish the lockwork. The tumbler may need to be turned and faced on a lathe so it's concentric too.
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July 2, 2014, 09:44 PM
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It is a safe bet that if the barrel of a repro Bess is straight and bored to about the same interior diameter for its full length, it is a lot better than most of the ones issued to the "redcoats" in days of yore.
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July 2, 2014, 10:00 PM
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James K is correct. I would trust a modern barrel more than the originals. When the British refined their powder making and increased its power, they reproofed their guns. Hidden seams opened up, old bulges re-bulged; all of which were hidden by the original barrel makers.
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July 10, 2014, 07:35 PM
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OK, guy. My Bess has a Lyman barrel. It is one of the Japanese made guns. I'm attempting to do a bleach rust browning job on it. It was heated and wiped with bleach and left to hang in the garage. Two days and hardly any rust. Am I doing something wrong or were these barrels made of a rust resistant alloy?
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