Very, very nice rifle. And sooo beautiful damasked barrels. Really nice !
Wondering if it has been made back in the days damasked single barrels for rifle ammo, not shorguns. Or mayby the technique forging it didn't allowed thicker barrels damasked ? A little sidestep when I saw it.

So, the Paulys cartridge was as small as a 22 short ? Wondering a lot in which dimension it was nearby.

Was it more smaller cartridges like the 44 Henry when it came ? Looked at the .50 Remington Navy cartridge, but it was only for that rolling block pistol I suppose.
Were some of them like that one "converted" to primer cases a little later?