This rifle and the Smith are really what started me in shooting.When the I asked my dad for the 2 rifles that had spent the last 25 years in the hall closet I was already married. And looking for another hobby. I was just coming off a 6 year photography
faze darkroom and all. At the time the only rifle I owned was A Marlin 39 That was spending it's life in one of my closets. After getting the guns I was determined to shoot them. It wasn't hard to find info on the web and I got what was needed to load and shoot them. Once again starting a hobby ass backwards. I built my darkroom before ever trying to develop or print black and white film. Here I was starting to shoot with a black powder Civil War relic. The Burnside uses a cone shaped brass case with a flash hole at the bottom (small) end and shoots .54 short stubby bullet. Round balls work good too. They could even be used as a muzzle loader in a battlefield pinch. You could probably even breech seat a bullet, The cases will last forever. Hum............?

That looks like the perfect rifle encompassing the best of both worlds; ML and cartridge