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1. this is the only problem I find in this list. firing a 340 grain bullet with 38,6 grain blackpowder is not enough!, only for target shooting. believe that the list was made under the scientific method but there is no possibility to say it hundred years later why he load only 38 grain BP in the case. maybe he remembered wrong from his youth, maybe it was the "working load" around 1865 when you only go on roe dear at 60 meter.
I will look for orignal loads for muzzle loader's from this time. believe they show also very low loads. wasn't your muzzle loader not shooting with a similar light load fuhrmann?
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2. its the achievement of the brits in india like Baker to develop the big bore cartridges.

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ad 1. Yes, I also was confused by this, and by Zimmer's reference to velocity ("bullet travels 1000 feet per second").
I completely forgot about my muzzloader data, I will dig these out.
If you have original data from the period to compare, it will be very interesting.

ad 2. The Brits certainly invented the express cartridge. Didn't Baker still use muzzleloaders?
That's an interesting question: who invented "high velocity" loads in muzzleloading rifles?
I have some reports about lots of powders being used in American rifles.

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