Bright Cerulean
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About 14 years ago, I had a chance conversation with my maternal grandfather about my interest in muzzleloading rifles. He mentioned an old man by the name Applewhite that he knew in the 1920's. It seems Mr. Applewhite always carried a percussion muzzleloading rifle (PMR) everywhere he went. It was his all-purpose rifle, and Mr. Applewhite was proficient with it.
Books by Ned Roberts, Walter Cline, and others have confirmed that the PMR was not tossed aside by everyone after the Civil War.
While we think of the PMR as being supplanted by repeating cartridge rifles, it appears to have been retained, even preferred by some users for its economy and accuracy.
I have endeavored to learn if there was a final form of the PMR that users believed was the high point of its development, but there did not appear to be consensus.
Has anyone else explored this lasting popularity of the percussion muzzleloading rifle?
Books by Ned Roberts, Walter Cline, and others have confirmed that the PMR was not tossed aside by everyone after the Civil War.
While we think of the PMR as being supplanted by repeating cartridge rifles, it appears to have been retained, even preferred by some users for its economy and accuracy.
I have endeavored to learn if there was a final form of the PMR that users believed was the high point of its development, but there did not appear to be consensus.
Has anyone else explored this lasting popularity of the percussion muzzleloading rifle?