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One of the reproduction outfits (can't remember the name) currently sells a smooth bore version and as I recall cost was about $750. I was considering it but a smooth bore Baker rifle defeats the whole concept to my way of thinking.Pierangelo Pedersoli has announced that they will be producing a Baker rifle next year.
Start saving your nickels and dimes - you'll need a dumpster-load of 'em.
Yuppers. You can buy an Indian-made replica - quite popular over here with re-enactors of the 95th as blank-firers. They STILL have to registered them as shotguns, though.One of the reproduction outfits (can't remember the name) currently sells a smooth bore version and as I recall cost was about $750. I was considering it but a smooth bore Baker rifle defeats the whole concept to my way of thinking.
I read all Bernard Cornwell's sharpes novels as they came out so have I have an appreciation for them from those.
That must be where the one I saw was made, India.Yuppers. You can buy an Indian-made replica - quite popular over here with re-enactors of the 95th as blank-firers. They STILL have to registered them as shotguns, though.
If you watch Rob Enfield of Britishmuzzleloading on Youtube, he has a new movie about the Baker rifle - his has a Bobby Hoyt barrel and a lot of finagling to make it shoot tolerably well. A fellow club-member here has a Peter Dyson-made replica, out of Rifle Shoppe parts. It cost around $8000 back in 2005 and took four years....every now and then he gets it out for a shot or two...........
Some if those Indian made replicas (and other middle east replicas) resemble firing replicas but are not intended to fire anything other than caps.You can buy an Indian-made replica - quite popular over here with re-enactors of the 95th as blank-firers.
That could be fun.
Thanks for the heads up on where all of my * nickels and dimes will be going.
Andy
*And my neighbor's coins as well
That's an idea....Honest signage...I'm out enjoying the weather...nothing to lose but my self respect.....If your school district isn't one of them year round types, you'd make a killin' this summer working the off-ramps dressed up in your frontier garb holding up a sign that reads, "VETERAN IN NEED: Please give your spare nickels and dimes for the Baker…. God bless"
Keep a spare bag though, for all the apples and oranges people will give you.
C'mon…. At our ages, we lost that YEARS ago.That's an idea....Honest signage...I'm out enjoying the weather...nothing to lose but my self respect.....
Andy