Message from @Duke of Mecklenburg
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I already used to load 11mm Mauser blackpowder
If its 50BMG cartridge with black powder
Which I saw on youtube
They just take 50 brass and use a blackpowder load, for custom gatling gun
Ah no it's not a BMG. It is rifled but it's more like an oversized 30-30.
Breech loaders were considered high-tech in the 1800s.
I mean she's an old goat but she's been with the family for 4 generations so I try to take care of her. Mostly she's a wall-hanger but I take her out for a dance every year or two.
Oh...so basically an old conventional blackpowder round
Black powder rifles are already 50cal though lol
Most blackpowder era rounds were .40+ in caliber
I've got a .55 upstairs
Because they couldnt produce the energy to make smaller cal rounds fast enough
Most people would have made their own shot over a campfire
Which is why we see 11mm blackpowder rounds get replaced by 8mm smokeless
I'm talking in the post muzzle loader, pre Smokeless era
Around 1860-1888
Ahh, gotcha.
I'm a pre-1840s nerd so lol
Metallic blackpowder cartridges like my 11mm mauser
Rifles seemed to be smaller cal than muskets for the most part
I've got a 50cal Kentucky
Yeah like I said the previous Springfeilds were all in .66
54in from butt to muzzle
Like line infantrymen would use a .58 cal ball in a musket, and jaegers would use .36-38 cal in a rifled barrel
I'm speaking of as an example
I'm just bragging lol
I think the Prussian standard issue In 7 years war was .58
I want one
I have a modern .50 muzzleloader for hunting blackpowder tags
But I'd like an old Prussian army musket from between silesian wars, 7years war, or Napoleonic
My great uncle has a Rifle used by a Mecklenburg-Schwerin dragoon at the battle of Leipzig...the battle that truly sealed Napoleons fate
Oh I mean I can't speak for the barbarian hordelands. Just American ordinance.
Mecklenburg gang
Prussia in 7 years war was insane
I'm a Texan...so Texas Revolution was lit
I've off and on considered moving to TX. As of now the money is not quite right.
Its cheap here
Except austin