I don't have a Crockett, but everyone who does seems to like it a lot. It does have a long 32 inch barrel and it does weigh 6 lbs. 7 ozs. though.

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One of the issues with .32 barrels is that they are often heavier than a barrel of a larger caliber. Many .50 carbines are in the 5 -6 pound range and are easier for youth to hold for off hand shooting.
The fact that muzzle loaders can be down loaded means that there's virtually no recoil shooting a .50 caliber. Loading is easier with larger balls because they're easier to handle and they make more substantial holes in target paper. Plus kids really like a little extra power after they start shooting the big bore with the light loads.
My son started when he was about 9 with a .50 carbine loaded with 25 grains of powder at 25 yards, and shooting 30 grains of powder out to 50 yards. There's very mild recoil but still plenty of accuracy, smoke and big holes in the paper to let them know that they're shooting a rifle capable of taking any game including deer.
A .32 is great for hunting squirrels just like a .22lr is, except it's heavier and longer. They're all fun, but some guns are tougher to learn to learn to shoot off hand with than others.
The only common complaint that I've ever heard about the Crockett is that cleaning patches can get hung up somewhere down inside the breech where there's a lip where the excess breech plug threading ends or something like that. Anyway, not every Crockett rifle has that problem but many of them do.