Originally Posted by
Chill Wills
Gard, If all the above sounds like cryptic answers, it is a little. It is just that like so many things, the details of your specific rifle, cases, mold and tools may have an effect of what you can do. It may take some playing around with it to see what you can do.
Smokeless loads - so you can get started; I am sure you know that the old SR-4759 powder and the current AA-5744 can be loaded in safe and accurate combinations for the large case you are working with.
The black powder loads turn out to only be hard in our mind and then surprisingly easy after we have a little experience with them. Generally, as new BP shooters, we make BP loading and clean-up harder than it really is. In time, we learn what to do and get rid of all the silly hoops (extra steps) low experienced shooters (keyboard experts) tell us we need to do. If it was as hard as some make it out to be, a simple guy like me would fail.
Try BP in another lower stakes rifle and get the hang of it. Apply what you learn and your new comfort level to shooting this fine 45-100.
Get a BP mentor. Doc Lay is somewhere in you area. I know there are many more.
Just some ideas.... Have fun.