The PA Pellet from all the reports I have read on it is a good rifle. I used to talk to a person on line that hunted with one all the time and said it was a very good shooting rifle with 80 grains of Goex and a 240 grain XTP. As for the pellet part and the substitute powders.. forget it. While it will shoot them, and you have to duplex the load, you will get your best ignition and performance from black powder. There is no use trying to avoid it. Flintlocks like black powder because it is the most consistent source of ignition.

All of those pellet shooters normally have to duplex the loads to make them work. Also you still need black powder in the pan to make them work. So just get some 3f black powder, and use it in the main charge and the pan.

I almost bought one of them once. In fact I had it ordered, credit card, everything. Then the company called me and said they did not have the one I wanted and would send me a different one. I told them thanks but no thanks.

As for the fiber optics aspect.. they are so much a part of rifles now days, I do not get too upset over them. I have a Tradition's Woodsmans Hawkins Flintlock. The same lock used in the PA Pellet and probably the same barrel. It is a good shooter and the lock is real fast and sure...