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I realize there is a school of thought that says you shouldn't use smokeless loads in black powder guns at all, but I have done so for all my years of shooting and will continue to do so. No doubt the margin of error is more critical and more care is needed in loading for these old relics than with more modern smokeless designs, but we should be doing all that stuff anyway, regardless of the rifle or pistol involved. The factories managed to produce millions of rounds of low-pressure smokeless loadings for .44-40, .45-70 and other blackpowder guns ....
I definitely agree! I do prefer the slower smokeless powders though (RL7, 4759, 5744, 4227, 2400) since they will produce b.p. velocities at equal or less pressure, and are closer in burning rate with the powders used in the early smokeless loadings....DuPont No.1, DuPont No. 2, and Sharpshooter.