Hi guys. I have a bunch of questions. Question on cost, caliber choice, freedom with ammuniton, using sabots, casting my own, which rifle is toughest, and so many more. Hopefully I can convince a resident authority here to allow me to spam his inbox with lots of pm's that would otherwise clog up this forum full of well informed individuals. I'll ask one simple question to begin with and hopefully someone will graciously step up and show me the way. I want to buy a 50 caliber black powder rifle. My purpose is simple. I want a firearm that is relatively easy to try new things with different bullet weights, shapes, powders, and charges to see just how far I can push the envelope. I want to send the heaviest chunk of lead screaming down range traveling as fast as possible, and make it hit as accurately as possible without my rifle exploding on me or becoming a large and expensive paper weight. Oh by the way I want to do this without buying expensive tools and loading equiptment that center fire reloading requires. I mean cheap as in poor college kid (which I am) cheap. Am I in the right place? The prospect of sending a 500-600 grain bullet at 1500 fps intrigues me. I would like to cast my own bullets, use sabots, and even do "plinking" with a simple lead ball all in the same gun. Am I still in the right place? As always my ingorance is humbled by your generous advice.