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Date Posted: 17:35:51 06/21/09 Sun
Author: William (Billy) Steinman (Pretty stinkin' pleased)
Subject: 1777 Charleville - Too much fun!

Howdy Pete (and the rest of y'all)!

My first post here... hope all y'all go easy on me. ;)

Anyways, I just thought I would stick a message up here telling y'all how pretty stinkin' pleased I am with my 1777 Charleville.

I bought it some time ago (oh, it must be at least a year and a half by now... don't rightly know exactly when I bought it), but everytime my 8 year old son Sebastian and I take it to the range, we always attract a small crowd of people wanting to know how it shoots, where we got it, how hard it recoils, what calibre it is, etc, etc... I usually let a couple of the range rats touch off a few shots so's they can spread the word about Middlesex Trading and how good y'all are. Everyone (me and my boy included) who shoots, handles or sees the musket is impressed with it and its quality. I've gotten to the point where I can reliably hit a man-sized target at 50 yards durn near every time, but the Charleville is finicky and you have to use Kentucky Windage to score a hit.

But no matter. I love it, and besides, I've never met a firearm that couldn't stand to be tweaked a little here or there to make it better. As a school-trained Gunsmith and Riflemaker, I've built my share of firearms for folks, myself included. The only thing that can stand up to a custom-made firearm is, well, another custom-made firearm, you know? But the quality of this musket is just fine for what it is, and I really love it.

(Perhaps polishing the inside of the barrel with a honing jig would improve the accuracy some... and using a grinding ball against the crown with some valve grinding compound, just in case there's some burrs or something. Oh! I hope I have a grinding ball that big! I'm not sure I have one! I'll have to scrounge that stuff up, give it a try and let all y'all know what the results are).

Y'all have a right fine business there, Pete. Great help on the phones, a great series of products and it's all affordable, too! Y'all just keep them new models coming, hear? I also have one of y'all's Germanic Dragoon's Pistols, and all's I can say is: This 'pistol' is a HOSS! 'BIG' ain't the word for it! Haven't fired it yet, but I got the fixin's... I'll take it out and air it out some in the coming weeks.

Anyways, all y'all take care. If'n y'all want a right fun musket- get you one of these 1777 Charlevilles. They're really something!

Billy

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