I do the traditionalist thing. I use flintlocks for all my hunting & shooting, with the exception of one .45 cal percussion colonial pistol. I hunt my small game with a .62 caliber french Tulle de Chase and have had enough success to tick off my hunting buddies. I've harvested everything from ringnecks to doves & woodcocks, rabbits to squirrel, etc. I use the volumn measure method of 1 powder by X 1.5 shot. I personally use 80 grains of FFg Goex to 120 gr of shot (size makes no difference). I use wads and cards as well as bee and wasp nest material for wadding. I also use the same powder charge with a .600 roundball in a .015 cotton patch for deer.

"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols and guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilage." Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878