when i am out of college im builing a flintlock....probably a .72 cal brown bess musket smoothbore......smooth bore so i can load it with shot......its about equivilent to a 12-13 ga shotgun.......and can also shot GIANT roundballs from it.....can you imagine how big a .710 round ball would be in your hand??? but my main reasoning for it is so i can have a flintlock shotgun....a smoothbore of any caliber can be loaded with shot..tweak loads and compenents and you can get a decint pattern...no 12 ga with hevi shot pattern...but a killing pattern at a half decint range.....and then you can hunt or plink with a roundball for big game if you wanted......i love flintlocking.....thats why i want to do that....i cant wait till then...