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Will do. My Knight is next up for the range, but that should hopefully be a sighting check.

There's some info on the NAML site run by Toby Bridges. He's a believer, and while he has sponsors, I doubt the Magspark guy is priming his pump to push this. I spoke with the owner at Warren at some length on the phone and it seems like a small, family business. Nice folks, with some interesting products.

I have a 54 cal Knight I have been using for years. I used to shoot 105gr of BH209 over a 400 gr cast 50 cal boolit with a sabot. Loading was a complete pain in the @$$. I would not reload the rifle in a climbing stand. To much shaking and wiggling for my taste and I don’t care much for heights so I may have been over cautious.

My new load is 80gr of BH209 over a 348gr Powerbelt. Easy to load, much easier on the receiving end too. Shoots great at short barreled 54 cal ranges too.

The load for my Ultralight has been 80gr with a 300gr .452XTP. Plenty of power. Last year I used the same load with a 290gr Barnes. Going to try 100gr this year, mainly for the flatter trajectory as the longest shot offered from my stand is almost 160 yards. From past range experience I know it's gonna thump me a bit, but if the accuracy is there, I'll take it. Again, based on range shooting, I can drop back to 80gr with no major POI change at normal woods ranges. The next trip to the range will tell the tale.

In my encore I shoot 100 grains under a 250 grain 45 cal bullet with the black sabot, I have killed 5-6 deer with this load.

Tried 80gr by weight and a 250gr xtp and was satisfied with the results much easier clean to

Did an experiment on BH209. If I don't clean the breech plug it will mis-fire at about the 11th to 13th shot. Never before the 10th shot. So, when shooting I clean it every 6th shot. Never had a mis-fire doing that.

I pulled the plug from my Knight after firing 9 shots Tuesday, just in case. No discernible build-up. This was using standard W209s. If I go back to the range before the season, I'll try it with CCI magnums, which have tended to get a little sticky in the past.

Federal 209A primers are what I use. The CCIs are too tight in my breechplug.

Using Blackhorn in my T/C I've shot 25 - 30 times without cleaning breech plug or barrel. Never had an issue. I've used both Winchester and Federal primers.

I had hangfires with Blackhorn and hot 209 primers in damp weather and went back to using Goex FFF. Real black goes bang for me 100% of the time. Never any hang-fires.

110gr by volume and barnes 250gn tmz. Hard to load but deadly

Only problem is, I'd have better luck find a bag of pixie dust or a Roman coin thah a lb. of real black within 90 miles of here. I even have to have my BH209 ordered! Nobody carries it. Now, 777 is everywhere.

I suppose I could order the black, also. But I've got the BH209 running pretty good in my CVA and 777 working well in my Hawken. It's all good in the hood!

I bought my most recent can of BH209 at my local Wal-Mart. Works great in my CVA optima. I use CCI 209 magnum primers. CVA makes a different breechplug specifically for BH209.

Goex black is a little harder to find, and is the best choice to use in my flintlocks.