I'm old enough to remember before replicas were available and we all shot original guns. Old guns were dirt cheap and muzzleloading was about the least expensive shooting we could do. There was at least one shoot somewhere in New England every weekend. I'm sorry that the interest in muzzleloading is on the wain. So, being a "old timer" I've owned and shot dozens of rifles over the years, I must have tried hundreds of home brew patch lubes and bore cleaners, tried about every brand of powder at least once, every brand of cap, and who knows how many different patch materials. And, although I don't shoot very much these days, I still enjoy messing around with new lube concoctions and new patch materials and working up best loads for the new combinations; always looking for the mythical "Most Accurate Load" that I know I'll never find. That's the fun for me still. I hope to meet you all some time on the forum- Good Shooting           IrishFritz