Emery welcome to the board first, I just bought my first smokepole, I did a lot of reading on them and read the blackpowder forum quit a bit. If they are legal I would go with an inline and shoot sabots using pyrodex. From everything I have read one of the most important things shooting blackpowder is keeping the gun clean, it is also difficult to clean properly unless it is an inline. I bought a Knight LK-93 50 cal. I did a good bit of research on inlines and for the dollar a Knight would be hard to beat, do not get me wrong there are other affordable inlines out there, but from what I have heard and read a Knight is the way to go if you don't have a ton of money.

The Tazman