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OK, would you consider pointing me in the right direction then?
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Well, if you want to get something that is as close to what they were like you are going to have find a reputable custom builder have it built from what little available information remains on the very few originals that remain. I know of 3 full FDCs that have been published.
For starters, all of them have 43 7/8” barrels +/-
All are between .61-.63” bores
Barrels are full taper with short octagon section at the breech.
All are stocked in European walnut, rammers were probably not hickory. The French liked using Holm oak.
Rammers are tapered and most likely had permanently attached cork screw gun worms on the end.
All are iron mounted.
All current kits have the stock profiles exaggerated.
These were standardized muskets intended of French colonist in New France and was considered a militia arm.