Thoughts? Loads?

Hell YES!! But only with the October Country 8 bore double rifle... One serious muzzleloader that I would feel more than comfortable hunting DG with. 835gr Roundball on top of 200gr of powder!!

A .62 or larger rifle using a prodigious charge of black powder ought to suffice. There have been plains rifles made for such work but I can't abide a hooked buttplate. The Zephyr might be interesting http://www.pacificrifle.com/african.htm

My White 97 Ultra Mag, with a 460-grain Power Punch bullet, and the highest charge of either Pyrodex or Triple 7 that gave good accuracy at ~75 yards. Not a problem...

A man from this area has a game room full of his trophies taken via muzzle loader from all over the world.A couple of years ago he was booked for elephant.

man cannon the october country 8 bore takes 300 grains of ffg i should know i had one.

Yeah, Jim Shocky has taken many with his Knight, er ah, well before he switched to the dark side AKA T/C.

THE CHARGE OF THE GRIZZLY AND FOUR ACES

The challenge of hunting the dangerous grizzly bear armed with a .54 caliber flintlock rifle and a .58 caliber flintlock pistol.



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If you'd shoot one w/ a 458 Win Mag, you could just use a Savage

I can imagine a .458 solid or X would be quite effective in a MMP HP sabot ontop of a stout charge of 4198.

Reloader

I shoot an inline just to get another week in the woods. So NO I would not feel that using a muzzleloader was anything special.