ORIGINAL: roundball
Powder can certainly be weighed but I guess mycomment is why would you want to?
Usually the main attractionof getting into muzzleloading is to learnand master the shooting & hunting tachniques used with muzzleloaders the way our ancesters did back in the early American traditional muzzleloading era.
(however, somedon't, preferring instead to use modern high pereformance scoped inlinesjust to take advantage of the specialhunting seasons established by/for the traditional muzzleloader hunters)
RB, that is the best paragraph I've read in a LONG LONG time. When I started hunting with a flint 3 years ago, I got myself a T/C Firestorm with the sythentic stock and the stainless barrel...and I can honestly say I now regret it. I wish I had a wooden stocked, hooked breech, brass and blued, smoke thrower. Muzzleloader hunting is about hunting like our forefathers did, not with new technology. I'm am now saving up my money to get myself a T/C .50 cal Renegade Flinter.
Thats one reason I love PA. They have a flintlock with iron V-notch sight muzzleloader season. PA is keeping the tradition alive.
GOOD JOB RB!!!