up to the 1960s when the british rule was ending the natives were only allow to own muzzle loader and the belgians were not to genteel to work for this special market. talked once with an old dealer who was knowing liege from the 1950s and early 1960s and he told storys of warehouses full with muzzleloader parts for making "bimbo guns".

anno hecker in his book "thats africa" talk about this native elephant hunting in the 1950s in Tanzania. iirc, the common method was to fire at the elephant at close range then throw the muzzle loader away, run and wait the elephant dying. everyone had to watch careful if the weel nuts on the land rover were in place because the natives borrow them as bullets for the muzzle loader. must have work like a forster shotgun slug and being very hard too.