Internet experts tend to get into fights over their opinions, even when they know next to nothing about the subject. An often-seen claim is that paradox or oval-bore Lancaster guns should be legally equal to rifles, and that it takes a certain skill to handle those. Today we will be checking some similar myths: • that an oval-bore Lancaster gun can shoot as far as a proper rifle; • that the 9.6×53 Lancaster round is powerful enough to penetrate a thick tree trunk; • that rifles are overall very powerful, which is why you need experience to own one.We will run a series of comparisons and find out how true these claims are, and also see which ones are just misconceptions existing among some gun owners.