Driftrider, thanks for the link. I suppose that most of my concerns about accuracy stem from the limited amount of exposure that I have had with muzzleloaders. The few I've been around were not very accurate at around a hundred yards. Just keeping consecutive rounds on a paper plate was considered pretty fair. I usually shoot a Browning A-Bolt .270. Accuracy is really not an issue, and the destruction of meat is not an issue either as I tend to shoot them in the head.

Since posting this topic yesterday, I have gone through the "archives" here in the black powder section, and it seems that most folks here tend to get pretty good grouping out of their weapons.

It might be that the particular weapon I used last year was simply not a very good one.

Mark...Those are some very impresive pictures you have there.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>