Wonder how many soldiers wounded by BP projectiles ultimately died later from infection (if no infected, just took a while to expire).
#11 ignition. I preferred FFg in my .50 cal rifles.
Sidehammer or inline.
T7 with musket caps works, do think it cleans up better.
After shooting in my then new New Englander .50..........iron sights, off the bench (sandbag front) I put three .495" Hornady swaged launched by 100gr FFg Goex...........into a cloverleaf, in the X.
It'd string vertically until it had about 50 shots through it. After that it shot great. Popped a running 9 pt with it at 50 yards.
Same load, from an old Renegade............also shot great. Popped a quartering away deer at the edge of paunch, exit was opp side of windpipe. Pinwheeled.
178 yards. Offhand. Iron sights.
But then we shot from the parking lot at the local club, which put our clay pigeons on the bank at 175 yards. Big bank, we learned how much drop there was.
So when the deer stopped, I stepped over and lined her up with a tree, picked a corresponding spot on the tree, and killed her.
About that particular Renegade............got it cheap, like new. Bud missed an elk with it.
The bbl hook and tang were funky in fit...........some drunk at TC put that gun together.
I glass bedded it, filled stripped screw holes in the walnut.........and ditched the tang peep (used bl sights). That got it to shoot fantastic.
Buddy ran tang sight. Ran it OK in zero, but suspect it shifted and caused a high or low shot when he got a rip on an elk.
Too bad he didn't discover the problem before. Or just went with bbl sights all the way.