Mr Nonte has been dead many years, and a very great deal of what he wrote does not apply here in UK where we do not hunt with BP firearms.

THE definitive BP book is the Lyman book of BP shooting, updated almost every year.

I've been shooting BP firearms since the late 1950s, and I've NEVER seen a single accident yet.

Black powder firearms shoot BP, or the BP subs - so long as you stick to that mantra, and don't fart around thinking you know better than fifty million other BP shooters, you'll be just fine.

We don't need alarmist posts advising new shooters not to blow themselves up. Most people of my acquaintance are naturally loathe do that.

tac