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Originally Posted by Porchdog

He can't use 30-30. They are straight wall cartridges only.

Just as an aside, I put together a .44 flintlock kit gun a few years ago. Not what I would have chosen - my buddy gave up on it when he realized the barrel wasn't straight. I put way to much time into it (straightening the barrel was the least of it), then couldn't get it to group consistently when it was done.

Well last year my son was having fits getting his Thompson Encore to shoot consistently. I really dug into load development for flintlocks and got it shooting pretty well. I then revisited the .44 and got that to where I'm pretty happy with it.

I'll be hunting flintlock with a .44 round ball this year - that's noticeably less powerful than a .44 magnum.

When I was a kid our neighbor killed his "crop damage" deer with .410 pumpkin balls. If you are careful to take good shots it doesn't take a whole lot to kill a deer.

Missed that part.