I think I've found THE LOAD guys. I've been shooting a bullet I cast from a Lee mold. It's the .457-405F and I size it down to .451 with a rubber hammer and a Lee .451 sizer die. Then I lube the bullets with Lee Liquid Alox diluted by half with isopropyl.

I put a 100 grain spout on my flask and then weighed each charge to balance with the first spoutful. The difference between spoutful weights using Pyrodex P was less than I would have guessed as it only took a few granules one way or the other to balance the scales.
I also sorted the bullets by weight and wound up with a fairly good pile of bullets that weighed 426 +0 -1/4 grains and those are what I elected to shoot.

I used three of my charges on another target to bring the point of impact to where I wanted. Then I fired this:
I didn't even go down to the target between shots. In fact, I never went down to the target at all - my friend Dave Walker did. I could see the hole for the first shot which was the uppermost hole and I thought I could see the second just below it, so I'm betting the last shot was the one to itself. Dave was watching me shoot and riding down to the backstop on his four-wheeler to check the shots. Before the last shot, two other friends of his drove up and watched.

I might have been feeling a wee bit of pressure as I knew the group was going to be quite good. The first two shots felt perfect and the heat was on!

They were all pretty impressed as I don't think any of those guys (hunters all) had seen a muzzleloader do anything remotely close to that before. Figure I might have held a skosh off or wiggled a skosh off or it could have been one big hole.

This rifle does what I have tried and tried to get that Encore to do. And it does it with ease! AND, it does it with bullets I make in my garage using a hammer in the sizing process. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>