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Good one, Sir Jerry. I will steal that line.
Squaring a BPCR away is always approved, especially the .44-77 SBN Creedmoor Darling and Buffalo Hunter
which, as you say, is so like the .461 Gibbs cartridges used in Sir Saint Metford's rifling,
and, in your case, paper-patched with Sir Saint Bagwell's handiwork.
That should Bagwell indeed.
We all know you like the Big Fifties too, and that is OK as target training for use of your .458 WM+.

In 1865-1866 the British NRA were having 1000, 1100, and 2000-yard muzzleloader contests, firing at a 24-ft X 12-ft target at 2000 yards.
That would look like a 14.4-in X 7.2-in target at 100 yards.
A scope-sighted .500-caliber rifle that weighed 15 pounds and fired 150 grains of black powder behind a 700-grain bullet
was fired by William Ellis Metford in 1865 and was the only rifle to hit the 2000-yard target.
He made a similar rifle for Sir Henry Halford in 1866.
Those two rifles were the only ones to score at 2000 yards in 1865 and1866 competitions.
THE TIMES OF LONDON on 15 June 1865 said:
"The weapon with which the prize was won, will, it is said, create some stir among those interested in small-bore and long-range shooting,
being on entirely new principles." (MUZZLEBLASTS, August 2021, pg. 12, by Fred Stutzenberger)

And then came the scope-sighted .458 WM+.
Practice with the 700-gr "Hellbender" loads in your Sharps shooters: 150-gr of BP or what ?