Bullets, what a topic---my favorite--they are the thing that do the work/killing. Do some reading on the web for the bullets you intend to use, especially the Cabelas and Midway Product reviews. You will get a sense of "bullet performance". If ya really wanna learn a lot more about this important topic buy this book:

http://ramworks.net/estore.html

Great Christmas gift for the hunter.

In Knight and TC, 300g Nosler Partition HG Protected Point, .451 diameter (a pistol bullet), crushed rib sabot, 100g of loose 777 powder, winchester primer. Your mileage may vary based on tightness of your barrel, and the sweet point of your gun. Most guns shoot between 80 and 120g of 777 very well, you should start at 80g of loose and work up in 10 grain increments shoot group of 3 or 5 at 80, group of 3 or 5 at 90 group of 3 or 5 at 100, group of 3 or 5 at 110 same at 120. Look at your groups and note when they start spreading out,select the load right below where they started spreading out. Work it upor down 5 grains.

Another good bullet is a Speer Gold Dot 300g, I shoot that out of my TC FlintLock. Tried it with 100g of Goex BP, but when I shot there was some buring powder on the ground in front of me. So dropped the charge to 80g and took 4 more shots, sighting it in at 13 yards for windage and 50 yards for elevation. I shot two inches right at 50 yards open sightswith the GD in the FL, that will be my Penna ML season load this year. I don't hunt rifle in Pa, only FL---it is a lot of fun. If your gonna shoot PB, shoot that at about 70g of Pyrodex, do not push them hard, if so they tend to fragment, not every time, but some times and you don't want that to happen on the "big one that got away".

In my Savage ML, I use a 275g Parker Ballistic Extreme. I tried 8 different bullets with the supplied sabot. See here for the bullets I tested in the Savage, shooting 44g of 5744 (the manual recommended load for 250 and 300g bullet).

http://www.the-gleasons.com/this_is_my_savage_10_ml_page.htm

Iwas looking for long range accuracy, 200 yards, since the outfitter said I had to be comfortable shooting 200 yards at elk off shooting sticks. I am not done with my testing yet for an Elk hunt in Colorado in 2008, first rifle season. I plan on using the Savage for that. I would prefer to shoot a Barnes, like the TMZ, 295g, but they are not as accurate as the SW and the Parker, see the above web page for different shooting I did with the different bullets. Best Wishes on your bullet selection.

Chap