What a bruiser!
 

I think I'll get one of these next. What do you think the availability and variety of projectiles will be like?
http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/product...aspx?id=323940

And after that, maybe one of these for a little squirel hunting.
http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/product...aspx?id=326493

That's strictly a round ball barrel. In a .58 there's no need for anything else anyway. The 29" long .58 GM "replacement barrel" on one of my TC Hawken stocks has the same 1:70 twist. Took a nice doe with it last season as reported here: http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/blac...wken-wins.html

That 42" barrel would make a heck of a flintlock. Are you thinking about a build Pluckit?

Not a build. Just a replacement barrel and I'm interested in a BIG BORE. It would have been for my Renegade stock but I didn't know they made them for the Hawkins stock too. I'll check them out.

Clarification: The .58 replacement barrel is 1" across the flats. It will fit Renegade stocks and Hawken stocks that have a 1" barrel channel (those that were originally .54 or .58 caliber).

That barrel in your link is not a "replacement barrel" with a breechplug and all of the furniture like thimbles, under rib, and sights. It's a naked barrel.

Got it. I changed the link.
Like another $70.00.
MAN! I'm really getting ahead of myself. I've only shot the .50 cal LRH 21 inch carbine once since I got it 4 months ago.

I shoot one of them .58 caliber roundball barrels. They are very accurate. And that 284 grain ball is all the medicine you need for critters I would think.

Even Black Bear? I'll bet they make their way to this neck of the woods sooner or later.

I would hunt black bear in a heart beat with that .58 caliber. I hunted them with a .54 caliber and was never too concerned. Of course I had a .44 mag as back up, but I was sure that .54 would have put a bear down. I even know a person that shoots black bear with a T/C New Englander .50 caliber shooting roundball.

I wish I had a gun that was 1 inch across. My Lymans are both 54 cal but are 15/16ths
but I don't think 54"s make a lot of difference to 58. Just the idea bigger is deader!