Just got off the phone with Bill Goodman and this Shiloh Sharps Saddle Rifle, 28 inch heavy octagon barrel in .45-100 will be headed my way.

Congratulations in advance, and good for you for choosing .45-100 and not .45-120. By all accounts I have read it is easier to get it to shoot well than the bigger case.

Short video firing it with a 511 grain paper patch bullet over 81 grains of Kik FFFg black powder. And yes I took my shooting glasses off while setting up the phone to take the video and forgot to put them back on and since that was my last round I could not reshoot the video.

https://youtu.be/TwGKVma-NHc

Here is the result of the above load at 100 yards. It was a hard quartering away shot and the bullet entered between the last rib and the ham on her right side and exited just in front of her left shoulder. She went about 15-20 yards and dropped

So nice to see someone shooting actual black powder instead of all the guys I see who get the longer cases and then proceed to desecrate the rifle by using smokeless powder. Because they are afraid of it, somehow.
Good job.

Thanks! I had a Shiloh in .40-50 Bottle Neck that I found a heck of a deal on some commercial loaded ammo that was smokeless powder. I felt dirty firing that ammo or the brass. All the other Shilohs I have had in .40-70 SBN, .45-70 (several)and now the .45-100 have never seen smokeless powder and never will while I own them. As the old saying goes "once you go black you never go back"