Sabotloader, I've seen your post and await the outcome. I was hoping you were going to say you were doing the experiment, muzzle down. There has to be fairly substantial condensation going on, cause when I pull my rounds to start over with fresh ingredients (sidelock), I can tip the gun muzzle down to pour out the powder charge (RS)and almost nothing comes out. I have to take the ramrod with ball puller attachment and run it down the barrel to break up the powder, and do it several times, to get most of it out. And that's after just 24-48 hours! Butt down. It's no surprise to me shots can be way low on an old charge. Knowing what I know now, I feel unethical taking taking a gun out and back in and back out to hunt deer after 48 hours, at least whenstored butt down.