Guys,
I just listed a smokeless muzzleloading system for sale in the classifieds if interested, drop me a line. It's a great shooting rig and I have lots of load data for it.

Seriously here . . . And please don't construe this as a personal attack because that's not my intention in the least.

This is PRECISElY why an "Assault Weapons Ban" won't work.

State legislatures and Fish/Game Depts. formulate rules for "black powder / muzzle loading" seasons with the INTENTION of creating a season where the means to taking game is with "less than modern firearms."

And so the "criteria" for the firearm is outlined -- just like the criteria for AWB's.

And so manufactures work to produce a firearm which meets the legal criteria for whatever specification -- and at the same time, delivers the ballistic characteristics of a "modern" firearm.

We get "inline" black powder guns. And "pre-loaded" chargers which are about a half-step away from a metallic cartridge.

Then we get a "muzzle loader" which uses smokeless powder.

Next we'll get a "smokeless muzzle loader" which shoots modern, composite, partitioned bullets.

Let me emphasize here that I'm not criticizing the resultant guns or the people who shoot them.

What I'm pointing out is that there is virtually no sort of "restriction" on firearms design that can't somehow be skirted.

I have an "AK-47" (SAR 1) which I bought during the last "AWB". No folding stock, no bayonet lug. According to the AWB rules, I can remove the buttstock and still be legal. If I want to affix a bayonet to this rifle (26" OAL no buttstock "rifle") there is duct tape.

I bought a 75 rd. drum mag for this rifle, two AR's, w/ high cap mags, two "grandfathered" Uzi Mod. 45's, and high cap mags for a couple semi-auto handguns during the last AWB.

-- Just like a "smokeless, inline muzzle loader." They set the rules. We get around them.

The rifle looks interesting. I hope I didn't hijack this thread.

What do you use for bullets? How are you charging it with smokeless? Pre-measured packets of some sort?

You have any sort of chrono data for this gun?