Muskets are made in a variety of calibers, but can go as high as .50 caliber
ABOUT .69 to .75 caliber. These were smoothbore muskets.
in excess of a mile
The first Springfield Trapdoor rifles, built right after the civil war and often converted from the older Springfield rifled muskets, were .50 caliber, but the later versions were .45
I would guess it was a musket from the civil war in 58 caliber. if it now takes a shell it would probably be the 50/70 caliber which is what all the civil war musket were converted to. The year date 1869 would fall under the conversion era of the 58 cal. muskets. The 45/70 rifle did not come into it's own until about 1873
What exactly are you asking?
The American Revolution was fought with muskets, which are firearms, but some would not consider them to be guns in the modern sense. Muskets do not have bullets and lack internal combustion.
Muskets are part wooden part metal.
The muskets used in the colonial era were typically smoothbore muzzle-loading firearms. These muskets were usually around .75 or .80 caliber, had a long barrel, and were fired using a flintlock mechanism. They were commonly used by infantry during the American Revolution and other conflicts of the time.
It would be in 36 caliber or 44 caliber...
As big as someone aspires to make it, I suppose.
Please load those muskets.
the north south Actually the breakdown is something like this using Boatner's Dictionary of the Civil War. Northern Armouries and private contractors 1,300,000 58 caliber muskets Royal Enfield Amoury and Birmingham Small Arms (UK) 300,000 .577 muskets Spencer Arms (Massachusetts) 107,000 repeating carbines Henry (later WInchester) 11,180 Henry repeating rifles Palmetto Arms, Columbia South Carolina, 5000 muskets Tredegear, Richmond Virgina, 15,000 muskets No area produced 97% of the firearms as England and Europe supplied many muskets which were used primarily for the South (CSA)