Hello all. I am interested in picking-up a semi-custom Pennsylvania rifle. This would be a real "meat-and-potatoes" type of rifle so no fancy embellishments, carvings, etc. To that end I am wondering is there a benefit of brass vs iron hardware? I am leaning toward iron but not completely against brass.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Put this in the traditional forum.

Good idea!

Thanks

You can delete this one.

IF I knew how I would. Not seeing a delete option in the Edit area - is that an admin only privilege?

Is that a requirement now? Or an option?
I own traditional guns and might post about them but it wont be over in the traditional forum . This is still blackpowderr forum not a inline only forum .

You guys are never happy.

Ridiculous.

Brass is a pain to keep clean if your the type that had to keep brass shiny hard to get clean in the tight spots and get brass cleaner on wood I would go steel and call it done.

If you are into it being historically correct, pre-Revolutionary war and actually a made in PA rifle then brass would be proper...

Iron started showing up more after the Revolution and it was more popular in the Southern states...

Those of us that have brass, typically don't polish it, we let it age...

I built this one in the late '80s as an example of a North Carolina rifle from the early 1770s...

I like brass too.