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echo: guns
to: DAVE APPEL
from: JOHN SANDOW
date: 1996-05-04 05:16:00
subject: Rifle vs. pistol

DA>CO> MS> -> By your own words then, your knowledge is rather limited, and 
you
DA>CO>Yep, gotta teach you about the difference between rifles and shotguns,
DA>CO>though.:-)
DA>A long barreled NON-rifled firearm shooting a single projectile
DA>is called a "musket" right?
DA>So when you shoot a single projectile (like a deer slug or round
DA>ball) from your shotgun, is your shotgun now a musket?  :-)
Wasn't it you who told me that under indiana law, a shotgun has to be
classified as a pistol, or vice versa, because of the vagueness of the
law?  I mentioned only something about rifling and length, but no other
specificas about the firearm.
DA>For those of you who cast, and also reload shotshells, you just
DA>GOTTA get those 525 grain Lyman sabot slugs.  Turns your shotgun
DA>into a .70 caliber musket.
DA>If you can find them, .662" roundballs and .690" roundballs fit
DA>inside of a 12 gauge plastic wad's shotcup.  .662" balls for
DA>choked shotguns, and .690" balls for cylinder bore barrels.
Good Lord, what do those things weigh?
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