Read the "General MLing Information" here: http://www.chuckhawks.com/index2h.muzzleloader.htm


GENERAL MUZZLELOADING INFORMATION:[*]The 2006 "Limber Ramrod Award": Won by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for the Nation's Worst Muzzleloading Regulations (Press release from Toby Bridges)[*]Black Powder Musings (Article by Schuyler Barnum)[*]Common Muzzleloading Questions (Q&A by Randy D. Smith) Revised 10/2007[*]How Long Can I Leave My Muzzleloader Loaded? (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Flintlocks: How to Shoot Them (Article by Paul H. Vallandigham)[*]How to Clean an Inline Muzzleloader (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Is a Modern Muzzleloader Like a Center-fire? (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Lies, No Sex, but Muzzleloading (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Locktime (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]The Magnum Muzzleloading Myth (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]The Most Accurate Inline Muzzleloaders (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Muzzleloader Shotguns (Article by Randy D. Smith)[*]Muzzleloaders and Recoil (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]Muzzleloading Basics (Article by Randy D. Smith)[*]Muzzleloading Murphy's Guide to Why Your Inline May Not Shoot as Good this Year (Article by Randy Wakeman)[*]What Everyone Needs to Know About Smokeless Muzzleloading (Article by Randy Wakeman)
buy the following book from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873419510/qid=1114882877/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-8867395-7390420?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

you can buy a used copy for only $1.95. When your ready tobuy a gun,read all the articles of the guns your interested in at Chuck Hawks site then go handlesome for feel. Then ask this forum what they think of the gun. Oh, don't think everything you read on Chuck Hawks is gospel. That should get you started. Best Wishes.
Chap Gleason