The musketoon is smooth bore. While many will tell you accuracy stories, remember that it is a smooth bore. They were made to shoot Minnie ball. 60 grains was a standard load. I shot against a Parker Hale at a rendezvous in the 2x4 cutting competition. His Minnie ball really gave him an advantage at 25 yards. But in the accuracy shoot, he could not be in the game with the rifles. Also, people talk of gong shooting but is that hunting accuracy? It would be a great time shooting the smoothbore, but hunting I think you better say 50 yards is your limit. Still, you might have a better group then that.