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    Pedersoli Brown Bess

    I have heard that the flintlock Pedersoli Brown Bess reproduction is legal to use in smoothbore matches. Is this true or just a rumor?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hawkeye2 View Post
    I have heard that the flintlock Pedersoli Brown Bess reproduction is legal to use in smoothbore matches. Is this true or just a rumor?

    http://www.n-ssa.net/NATIONAL/SAC_Jun2012.pdf
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    Phil Spaugy

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    As shown on the Approved Arms List, as per the link provided by Phil Spaugy, the Pedersoli reproduction Brown Bess musket does not have a Production Approval. However, you may take it to the Small Arms Committee for inspection, and if all things are correct, the arm will be issued an Individual Approval card which will permit you to use it in any of the appropriate N-SSA matches.

    To clarify things a bit further, the "Brown Bess Carbine" is not approvable. Only the full length muskets will be considered, which includes the Long Land Pattern. In addition, the Brown Bess musket made by Mirouku is also approvable individually, upon inspection by the Small Arms Committee. There is a bit of a caveat on the Mirouku because you can only buy a Mirouku on the secondary market today, and many of them were sold in kit form and assembled by parties unknown. So, if you are buying a used Mirouku, which may have been built from a kit, look it over very carefully first. They were popular arms in the re-enacting field many years ago and may have been modified to satisfy various Regimental or specific unit requirements over the years. This modification caveat applies to any used arm bought on the open market. Be an educated consumer!

    There have been about eight or ten Brown Bess muskets individually approved over the years, but I've never seen one on the line!

    John Holland
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    "There is a bit of a caveat on the Mirouku" This should apply to the Pedersoli also as many were sold as kits by Navy Arms and quite possibly by others also.

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    Yep, what hawkeye2 said, too!

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