Well I waited too long and other person picked up the gun. But while I was shopping last night I found a .54 Renegade Percus for a good deal. Good enough for the fact that even if a get a Flint barrel and lock it will still be 100 cheaper than buying a lyman GP Rifle! The stock as some minor dings and dents, but this winter I can sand those down and refinsih it. Hardly a mark around the double set triggers and guard. The outer barrel has a few scratches but none of the blueing is off. Inside the barrel is alittle bit different though. It has some pitting and rusting. I tried getting it out last night, but I didn't have and .54 cleaning accessories. So today I'm going to work on that. SO if anyone has some tricks to get it all out I would love to hear them. Also the little screw right below the nipple is stripped, but my gunsmith will drill and tap it with a new screw for 25 bucks. Overall I'm not too worried since in the long run I will be switching it out. But I've never owned a sidelock, so I'll probably play around with this percussion for awhile. So if anybody has any load data that I could start off from I would greatly apperciated it. I'll take pictures and post them once I get it cleaned up, right now its torn all down to the bare stock. Also what would be the best powder besides reg. black powder. No one carries GOEX, so I'm up the creek on that one. I'm leaning towards Pyro, had an awful crud ring with 777 in my inline. But I thought that maybe it would be different with sidelock. Also if it is Pryo, which is better the reg RS or the Select. Thanks. I have a feeling that I'm going to be asking alot of questions here in the near future.