Loyalist
Arms & Repairs is proud to announce
our new
1690's French marine Musket.
Whether
you are portraying a French Marine
protecting Canada, or a French pirate,
(fillibustier),
cruising the Caribbean, you will be
well armed with this Tulle Marine
Musket.
Late
in the 17th Century, the Tulle factory
was awarded contracts to provide muskets
and pistols for
the dept. of the Marine in France.
This musket is an example of one of
their earlier models.
The Dept. of the Marine was responsible
for arming the colonies in North America
and the
Caribbean .
The Tulle factory produced all the
marine muskets until the 1740's, when
increased demand led
the Dept. of the Marine to also approach
the factory at St.Etienne to help
supplement the arms requirements
that the Tulle factory could not handle
for lack of facilities and space.
This
is a beautiful musket with all iron
hardware and octagon to round barrel,
with two wedding bands.
The stock on this musket has been
cut back to accommodate a socket bayonet,
however, our production models
are full stocked to the muzzle, (like
the originals), and will only accept
a plug bayonet, unless the customer
desires to cut
the stock back themselves.
Ram
rod is wood, and there are no sling
swivels. This musket has three ram
rod thimbles, but no entry thimble.
Close
up of rounded lock plate, cock, and
unbridled frizzen, typical of the
pre 1700 French muskets.
"TVLLE" is stamped on the
lock plate.
All
hardware is iron, and is rounded including
the side plate and trigger guard.
Note the rather short tang on the
butt plate.
Close
ups of the barrel, showing the octagon
section ending to round and the two
wedding bands as well as the thimble
design, and the trigger guard area,
showing the fancy relief carving.
The carving is very nice around the
barrel tang as well, just like the
originals. Caliber is .69, and barrel
is 45 inch long.
These
muskets would also fill the role as
trade guns and the Fusil de Chasse.
Since
these muskets are a new offering by
our company, there is presently, a
limited supply.
Loading
and proofing data available for all
our muskets. Trigger pull is approx.
13 1/2 inch.
Order
Yours Today!
Price:
$649.00 USD/ $780.00 CDN
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