Zeno I did that for years too. Finally I broke down. I guess it was from watching "Quigley Down Under" for the 10th time and said the heck with it - I'm getting one to play with.
I probably won't hit a wooden bucket at 1500 yards or shoot a bad guy off a moving wagon at 1000 yards but I will have fun shooting it with my own hand loaded black powder cartridges using my own hand cast bullets.
All I need now is to make my own black powder and figure out how to make my own primers and I'll be self sufficient!!!
The powder wouldn't be hard but the primers??????