Sounds great, Al. Good work. Your wod column sounds just fine. I preferred to use the gas check off the bottom of the wad with the cup facing up to hold the undersized ball centred for better accuracy. A do-nut wad would do the same.

The pretty much flat nosed Lyman sabot slug weighs 506gr. in Cdn. WW's and is just smalle enough to fit inside a red WW field wad. It should be a good killer for smokeless loads. I'm assuming that's the one you are referring to, Al.

For black powder loads, I've achieved as good accuracy with black as with smokeless. Smokeless loads developing the same velocity as black powder, have about 1/2 the recoil of the black, BTW.