I'm giving serious thought to buying a Muzzleloader since my state only has shotgun/BB/pistol/archery seasons...three I've got covered, but I want to try muzzleloading, because I've never been please with shotgun setups and you can use BB guns in shotgun season.

Here's the question: .50 components are much more prevelant, but I would think the .45 cal produce alot better ballistics. If I'm alright with having to search around for bullets/pellets/cleaning stuff is there any reason to go .50?