Although I will admit to playing around with some lower pressure smokeless loads in my Knight Disc rifle a few years back, I really don't see the point of the Savage ML. The performance of many of the new powders, as well as some of the pellets, is about the same as the smokeless loads - and doesn't subject the projectile to all the pressure related problems that the smokeless powder does. I think it all comes down to just being too lazy to clean the gun . . .