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

@Duke of Mecklenburg Umm

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

The Kentucky longrifle was usually around .36 cal

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

The issue is the population growth is fucked

Towns of 36,000 in 2000, are 90,000 now

To many are moving in from California