During 40+ years of shooting black powder I have never felt put out by having to clean a BP gun at the end of the day. The thing with smokeless vs. black is, you'll be cleaning the gun after use anyway, right? Right? Just use hot soapy water instead of the noxious chemicals generally used for smokeless cleanup. Like DD said, you might find that the BP residue is easier to clean in the long run.
Trust me, as a fellow Marylander, our deer die just as dead with BP as with smokeless.
