I also have a long-ago sporterized and uncommon Michigan National Guard Remington Lee Model 1899 in .30-40 Krag in nice shape to put up for sale soon. Lemme know if there is interest here.
Here's a nearly new India-made 1766 Charleville I bought last spring from Military Heritage to have something appropriate to shoot on the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord last April 19. Caliber is .69 and it does well with a ticking-patched .640 round ball in my limited experience. I have only shot it a few times. The original 1/16th inch touchhole I drilled (these ship from Canada with touchhole undrilled) seemed too small for decent ignition. Based on advice from Bob Roller on another forum, I used a No. 6 tapered pin reamer to open the hole a bit, and got an immediate improvement. In my thread, "Drilling a vent hole by hand" in the Gunbuilder's Bench Forum below (now on page 10), I was advised to deepen and polish the pan by Eric Krewson and to work on adjusting the flint to a steeper angle by Old Slater. I will leave these improvements -- and reducing the trigger pull to the next owner. Suffice it to say that although the distance was just 15 yards, the Charleville put two patched .640 round balls in touching holes over 80 grains of FFg, so she wants to shoot.
Military Heritage gets about $718 shipped for these, and Marty's Moulds gets $120 for their five-hole .640 mold (balls are about 385 grains). I'll sell the musket with a hand-sewn ticking cover, the mold, two dozen cast balls and six extra flints for $675 shipped Lower 48. There are some light scratches on the left cheek, and I went over most of the chrome-bright metal with 600 grit steel wool per Armorer Roy's suggestion. Bore is excellent as you would expect.
