Excuse me gentlemen but I've skirmished for many a year. I am well aware of
what civil war military rifled muskets can, and cannot do in the field. Setting
up for fixed/known-range target shooting -- vs hunting at indeterminate ranges
past 125 yards w/ instantaneous calculation for football trajectory for a single
shot -- is a totally different ball of wax.
My counsel is not to do it.
In the end, however, the OP may do he desires.
Then you & I are kindred spirits....obsessive nature...
Then you & I are kindred spirits.