.36 Caliber Fans?

Well, the joke was on me. I had the parts lying around since the early 80s and I finally got around to building the rifle last winter. I went to order some balls for what I thought was a .40 H&H barrel and it was .36. I recently had Brad do some lock work and haven't had time to shoot it again so no range reports but it quickly is becoming my favorite rifle at the range. It weighs 6.5#.

Don't feel alone @reddogge. I had a 36 caliber barrel (caliber marked with a black marker) for 38 years. I finally built the rifle and when I went to the range for the first shots, found out it was a 40 caliber. And to think for almost 40 years I had wanted a 40 caliber rifle and there it was in my gun safe on the projects side.

My small bores are fortys,,I do like that caliber and they would work for deer with a good load,,I have three of these 40s not that i went out to build three,the first was i did inted to make,a A weight swamped barrel with a very early style lancaster pattern but made as a Western Virgina iron mount.The next two were not planned!They just came to me in aprts,,second is a north caronlia rife,kinda plain but nice,,lower grade wood on purpose for it. The third was a good friend died and his wife gave me the stock that he had so it was a bucks county and yes it becme another forty,,but i shoot them all even in this horrible cold like today,,real sharp crack for it!!

Crazy Jay said:

I ordered some.358 balls to try out in my 36 Seneca. Has Anyone else tried them?

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They will be too big.

I wouldn’t try the .358.
.350 work well in mine with a patch.
I’m not sure what patch you might go with but to thin it will probably burn through not sure what the pressure would be.
.350 has always worked for me with just great results and accuracy. So I never thought about trying something else
Hope it works for you.

reddogge said:

Well, the joke was on me. I had the parts lying around since the early 80s and I finally got around to building the rifle last winter. I went to order some balls for what I thought was a .40 H&H barrel and it was .36. I recently had Brad do some lock work and haven't had time to shoot it again so no range reports but it quickly is becoming my favorite rifle at the range. It weighs 6.5#. View attachment 286344

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Handsome!

Flintlock said:

We should remember as well the a large whiteail buck in Florida is the size of a yearling in northern states. What is a passible caliber in some states shouldn't be used in others.

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Yes, FL deer look like house pets

I have a .36 full stock and a .32 half stock. Both are good shooters.