RE: how long have you been using one
My Grandfather taught me to use his Remington 44 [a matched pair from his fathers civil war days] and a 43cal Kentucky rifle in 1949 after that I aquired a 45 cal underhammer dated 1837 [which I still have] then in 1962 I started out to build one off a 22 auto frame 40 cal and my first inline then into pistol compitition and a bussinness related to muzzleloading and archery, retirement in 1991. I still shoot my Rugar Black powder, my Hawken I built from scratch to a set of plans from the museumin St Louis, Two TC's a Hawken 45calI won long a go gave to my dad and got bad when he died and a Renagade that I have taken 27 deer and two bear with a System One with 54 and 50 cal barrels an Omega and a Triumph. Now thats the ones I shoot regular thebig gun safe is packed my wife had a nice set before she got cancer and died and some others from grandpa and dad but I stored some and like to keep the amount I am actually using down to where I can strip and clean all in one afternoon. Lee