I do understand your thoughts on heavy powder charges especially when using a rifle with a proper round ball twist. However our 50 cal inline with 1:28 twist loves 80 grains of H777 behind a patched roundball. Decent groups at 75 paces (2 inch with poor open sights) and travel at a chrono'ed 1953fps. At least she has the roundball part right Darryl. Those plastic sabots suck and she new that straight away. Hard to load and foul barrels like crazy.

And yes Tinker we chase the black woollies every spring. As soon as I put a .72 cal ball through one I'm going to "borrow" my wife's .50 and drive two through another.