Use wads with balls, always. It gives that much needed layer of protection.
Keep a penknife in your pocket, or better a small multitool. Keep a nipple pricker there too.
777 is cleaner and you can use alox with it for very little mess.
You will want between 12 and 30 gr of pyro measured by volume if its a .44 (you did noy say)
Light load and thick wad is good for accuracy into paper.
Hot load for lots of smoke and noise when theres noobs on the firing line, just for fun
Keep your fingers well back from the front of the cylinder when putting caps on.
Get hold of some of that high temp.copper grease as used on car brakes and give the nipples a little smear when you fit them.
Dont be disapointed at your first hundred shots, you'll learn same as we all did.
“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