I had a friend that used to cut his pellets because he shot a .54 caliber and did not like that much recoil the two 60 grain (I believe they were) gave. I finally talked him into loose powder because his accuracy suffered so much. How can you know you cut and broke the pellet the same time, each and every time.

I just bought some pellets myself. They are Pyrodex RS. I have been shooting them in my different inline rifles. I only load two of them. That should be all the power you would need with a 250 grain shock wave for deer out to 150 yards or so.

Of course I seldom practice what I preach because I like to experiment too much. Today I was shooting 120 grains of loose Triple Se7en 2f - a MMP sub base - 200 grain Shock wave - and Remington Kleenbore Primers out of my Knight Disc rifle. That is about as heavy duty of a load for deer that I think I would ever need. For some reason, yet to figure out, this Knight Disc rifle shoots better with VERY STRONG powder charges. The rifle was very impressive to say the least.

Hodgdon's in fact no longer recommends the use of three pellets at their site. I am sure there is a liability reason behind that, as you think they would be happy to sell more powder so the faster some one shoots it the better for sales.

I did not catch the make of your rifle, but I would agree with Sabotloader, start with 100 grains for now and have some fun. If you think you would like more powder, perhaps get a box of the 30 grain pellets and load four of them. 120 grains would be a good strong load. I personally have no preference over pyrodex or triple se7en in pellet form as they are very close to being equal in powder. Some rifles do have nasty crud rings with the use of Triple Se7en. I am pleased to say, my Knight Rifle today did not.