500Boswell: Thanks for the info. I live only a couple of hours south of where the October country guns are made and I hope to go and see one of them if I go up to Post Falls for the gun show next month. Weather permitting of course.

Daryl: Thanks. I have been hoping to do a shorter barrel. I would like to see how one would do and if it shot well with a short barrel it might make a good gun for hunting elk in thick timber. Maybe considerably overkilling it but I hate tracking a wounded animal.

Does anyone have any pictures of single shot muzzleloading big bores? I have found some in the past in the bore gun forum but a lot of the pictures seem to not be there anymore.

Thanks