Phil I very much appreciate your honesty and apparent experience in this area. I may have mentioned this earlier, but I am not a rifle guy. A waterfowler, upland, turkey and slug gun deer hunter, yes, as you can see shotguns are my thing. I know nothing of floating barrels or bedding stocks, other than what I may have seen in Field & Stream or Outdoor Life over the years. I'm in that sponge stage of muzzleloading, soaking up all I can here, but still with enough sense to make my own decisions on things. This forum is by far the best muzzleloading resource on the web, made so by the likes of yourself, cayugad and sabotloader and many others.

I plan to shoot my Kodiak as much as I get the chance, it is just plain enjoyable to do so. I doubt I'll reach the volume you do, but I don't plan to shoot it just once or twice a year either. I've got some 375 SSB's that should be arriving today and I'd like to give the 300gr. Gold Dots a try. I don't plan on loading more than 100gr. of powder, ever, don't see the need to. I would like to see how your load workups go- sounds like you're heading down sabotloader's artillery shell road!