Max weight for projectile for a Confederate Mountain Rifle (one of Bernies tubes)? Bore is 2.25''.
Walt Magee
Max weight for projectile for a Confederate Mountain Rifle (one of Bernies tubes)? Bore is 2.25''.
Walt Magee
Good question since the maximum powder charge and projectile tables have bore sizes listed by tenths of an inch. A 2.2 inch rifle maximum weight projectile is 44 ounces, and 2.3 inch is 50 ounces. It would appear from reading the table that the maximum weight for a 2.25 inch would be 47 ounces.
Norm Gibson
Charter member of the 1st South Carolina Vol. Inf. ACWSA
Thanks Norm. Mine are not that heavy and Im glad I dont have change anything.
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