This is my set up;

Remington 700 ML .50 cal muzzle loader using musket caps, not the newer modern .209 shotgun primers.

I shoot 350 grn Precision Rifle bullets with polymer tips and boat tails with either 90 grn of 777 FFFG or 100 grns of Clean Shot ( Pioneer now). I get around 1600 fps with this load I think.

I have a point blank range of 150 yards with a 130 yard zero. Which means I'm under 3 inches high at the highest point and I drop 3 inches low at 150 yards. Any where out to 150 yards I can simply place the cross hairs in the middle of the vitals and kill deer dead with no concern for hold over or anything else.

And I get near 1 inch groups at 100 yards and around 4 inch groups at 200, not estimated, I have actually shot it off from a bench at that distance when working up the load. And this is with a 3-9 scope with no parallax correction.

And I consider my load to be pretty underpowered and slow compared to most others. I shoot a relatively heavy bullet with a fairly low amount of powder (but it's accurate that way). A lighter bullet with a heavier powder charge and faster velocities would be even flatter than this, providing it was accurate enough at those ranges.

There is no question in my mind the inline is more accurate, gives you more range and is cheaper to get that way in most cases than a slug gun. Which is why I sold my slug gun and am going back to using my muzzle loader.

Once you get a good load and get it sighted in a pound of powder, pack of bullets and some primers will last you a long time unless you shoot a lot in the off season. Figuring for a 100 grn powder charge a lb of powder should give roughly 70 shots.

Powder- $20/lb
Primers- $7/100
Bullets- $10-15/20

Unless I did my math wrong ( which wouldn't shock me) that comes to less than a dollar per shot for the Muzzle Loader.

Paul