Did not make it to our local SW PA gun show on Saturday. Went and took my trusty ole 54 cal flintlock rifle for a woods walk. Cold, snowy, and the wind was howling. Last day of flintlock season. Bambi stayed hunkered down. Today was a good gun show day. Managed to buy a nice Marlin-Ballard rifle for $1800. Looked up the serial number which listed it being manufactured in 1889. Go home with my prize and slugged the bore. Came out at .330" No caliber markings but looked like a 32-40 Win. Haven't made a chamber cast yet. Has an absolutely stunning bore! Be a great cast boolit shooter. Look out woodchucks! Mom's bean patch will be deprived of the woodchucks!!! But now another caliber to load. Gotta find a mould that casts a .334" dia boolit and a sizer for .332". 32-40 brass is tough too. Excited to make this piece shoot. Must have had a nice tang sight on it. The base is still attached to the tang. I asked the seller if there might be a junk box with a ladder sight sitting in it. He said he would look! Its obvious the tang sight was removed when the target dovetail bases were installed on the rear of the barrel. The scope seems to be around 6X. No markings! The gun is no long range 400 yard varmint buster but could maybe smoke a critter out to 150 yards?