Rock Home Isle
54 Cal.
Wow, that would just be too much barrel for me. The muzzle would be over my head, when I tried to load it…short starting a ball would…take some getting used too for sure.I was talking to a few older gentlemen about old muzzleloaders and we got on the topic of "Over the Mountain" barrels. Like the ones that are 50"+. One of the older gentleman said when he was growing up in Tennesee before moving to Baltimore he said there was a man in his 50's with a 55" barrel .45 caliber rifle and he would go deer hunting all the time and got to shoot it a few times at old metal buckets and coffee cans. Question is do smaller caliber rifles suffer from such long barrels due to their smaller powder charges ? I can understand something like a .54-.62 would take a 100-120g charge just fine but would a smaller caliber like .40,.44 and .45 suffer from a barrel length of 50"+ ?