Salty Possum said:
So here is an unusual question, how hard is it to get a repro of a BP musket or rifle that was used by eastern european armies? I can't seem to find any. Btw by "eastern european" I mean countries like Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, etc. I don't know to much about that part of the world, but I was looking to see if anyone knew of repros from there.
Many if not most of the countries you name did not actually exist as independent entities during the muzzleloading era, but were part of something else. Poland, for instance, did not exist until 1918, prior to that, since around 1795.
All military firearms would have been Russian-made - Tula, perhaps? St Petersburg?
There are, AFAIK, no replicas of such a gun.
Hungary?
Well, following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Medieval Hungary collapsed and succumbed to 150 years of partial Ottoman occupation (1541”“1699). Hungary eventually came under Habsburg rule, and later formed a significant part of the Austro”“Hungarian Empire (1867”“1918).
So the miltary guns there would have been the breech-loading Werndl and whatever predecessor muzzle-loader that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was using. Again, no replicas exist, TMK.
Remember that these places were basically semi-feudal non-egalitarian states ruled by Emperors, and the average joe would not have had any kind of firearm, just in case...
I know that The Rifle Shoppe has/had kits for Danish and Swedish muzzle-loading arms of the military kind, but as for the rest, I think that you are on your own.
tac