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It is good to find others that share my addiction. Last week I bought my third in-line or fifth Blackpowder firearm. It started 30 years ago with a T/C Renegade kit in .54 caliber, a birthday present from my wife. A few years later my parents gave me a off brand 1858 Navy revolver in kit form that is fun to shoot. I took a hiatus until the T/C Encore muzzleloader hit the market, but I went a different direction. I bought one .45 caliber instead of.50, why I don't remember but I don't regret it. I struggled with finding a load that preformed up to the level that I knew it could preform. Great Plains bullets harvested some deer and were reasonablely priced, but missed on long range accuracy. Power belts were good for one shot but couldn't repeat the accuracy without swabbing the barrel. Then I found Harvster Crush Rib sabots and things changed. Sabots in the past would not go down the barrel without a fight. The CR sabots paired with .40/10mm gave me multiple shots in an inch or less at 100 yards. Then in the last three years I have found two CVA in-line .45s for $125 each. NOW I have found Lehigh bullets and I looking at working on improving accuracy and reaching out further than 100 yards.