NON Firing Brown Bess for School Presentations. Needs to appear authentic!

[Jimmichanga]

My Yosemite Chapter of the American Revolution would like to purchase a NON firing Bess to do public school presentations about the American Revolution. It needs to spark!
I have a Pedersoli Bess that I love to shoot but bring it on a California school campus can be problematic. The students really like to see one however and I’d like to show them this musket. I need to find the best quality non firing version I can that makes good spark. I need your recommendations. Where can I obtain a version that doesn’t look crappy like those Denix or $200 version “toy” muskets. As Continental NY 1st Regiment reenactor I want our portrayal to be as accurate as possible. I need help finding this Bess. Suggestions please. And if anyone has one they can part with that is non firing authentic in appearance we can talk. Thanks in advance.
In Patriotic Service.
Your humble servant.

Jim Riley
Vice President
Yosemite Chapter

Sons of the American Revolution

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[Loyalist Dave]

I believe this is a duplicate thread.

You have two options, and I believe they are covered in the other thread.

You may contact one of the folks selling the First Model Bess, which is actually more "correct" than what is offered from Italy, and ask them NOT to drill the touch hole. Otherwise it's a working, looking, rusting if not polished, brown bess, and you can get a bayonet for it too. I buy mine from Loyalist Arms LLC up in Canada.

The other option is to get a Pedersoli or used Miroku Short Land Pattern Bess repro, and have a gunsmith fit the touch hole with a touch hole line, BUT, have him do it with a line that has not been drilled so that will render the musket inoperative.

Check the other thread for further answers.

LD