Only thing I can say bad about my Savage is the bluing/finish is typically Savage, crappy. But man how she shoots. I am gonna have the gun Tcoated next summer anyway so the finish issue is nil.

I shoot N110 powder under a 300grn SST. 44-44.5 grains of it. I simply took a dipper from the Savage shooting kit and filled it with powder (lol damn my CRS is kickin in, cant remember which one it was. Wanna say the 3.7/big one, regardless it was the one that Savage recommended.) and then poured it into a standard brass Knight blackpowder measure. I pushed the measure until the powder was flush with the top. I then screwed the top down and made a mark with a pocket knife on the outer side of the measure. I also filled the flask with powder. If you went by the BP numbers/indicators on the side it would be nearly 60grns but that has nothing to do with tea in China so forget those numbers.

Ya gotta love a muzzleloader that you can set the trigger on down too 2#s, dont have to clean and it has the power to WHACK EM AND STACK EM all the way too 300yds!!!
RA

ps
Toby Bridges is an F-IDIOT!!! The naysayers like to point to that ONE exploded barrel. Nevermind that the gun had already had 7500 rounds fired through it, most of which were STOUTLY overloaded test rounds and even highly dangerous exploratory rounds. If you stick "blends of powders" in there, what in hell do you expect to happen? Toby was loadin several grains of this, then several grains of that, then several grains of... "layering powders" and he wonders what happened? He wants to blame the 3 holed vent liner. While I prefer the single hole version, what did he expect other than the "pipe bomb" result he got as a result of his mystery powders?

The guns are tested to 130K cup. Thats more than twice a 300WBY Mag. If someone blows one up its NOT because of an accident on the part of a properly loaded gun or because Savage didnt do their part.