Our ranges were issued a certificate by the Ministry of Defence until this year. It has now changed to having insurance cover suitable.
Yes the EFP will cover muzzle loaders.
A lot of shooters here use percussion revolvers because cartridge pistols are banned (at the moment).
I shoot revolver on a 25m range and others in my club shoot m/l rifles on a military range out to 300m.
The experimenting is the fun part of shooting them along with having a laugh at the serious shooters on the range when the clouds of smoke drift over them.
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” :- Prince Philip said after Dunblane