ORIGINAL: skydiver
Thanks for the reply. AsI said, I am VERY new to this and will be looking for all the infoI can get. The shop I purchased the gun from sold me Triple Seven pellets and really wasn't a lot of help. I deal with them on the archery side and they are excellentfor that butI felt lost on this purchase. They didn't carry the black powder and recommended another shop for that. I stopped in there and was very happy with the info and time spent with me there. I will be using that shop for my black powder needs from now on.
I am very suspicious of an "expert" who sells someone pellets to load a flintlock. There are a couple flintlocks that are "designed" to use pellets, but I have heard some stories about them that would tend to damagemy confidence in such contraptions.
It is best to shoot REAL black powder in a flintlock, and real BP is MANDATORY for the pan priming charge. Any time any kind of black powder substitute powder is used in a flintlock, it is wise to use about 10-grains of real black powder in the bore first, and load thesubstitute on top of this charge. This approach might even make pellets work, I never tried that! I am prejudiced against pellets. It is much easier to findreally accurate loads using loose powder and an adjustable volume powder measure, as you can make much smaller incremental changes as you work on developing the load.