Here is what I did and it will take a while to find your load. Pick one powder and about 3 different styles of bullets of different weights. Examples are sabots with 240-250 grain weight and one around 300 grain weight. Cast full bore lead bullets of two different weights and two pointed bullets like Shock Waves or Hornady. You can even throw in two different styles of Power Belts. Try each bullet with different powder loads and find the best grouping. Then you can change powder with the same bullets and check the results. I found the best for my T/C Thunder Hawk are 240 grain .44 XTP's with 90 grains of Pyrodex P and 250 grain Shock Waves with 90 grains of Pyrodex P. I don't have 209 ignition so I use #11 caps.

I cleaned between each shot to see what the performance was out of a clean barrel. Once I found my load I did three shot groups to see what would happen in a hunting situation where a second or third shot might be needed. The thing I found interesting is I get better groups out of a dirty barrel. The best part of this is you get to do a lot of shooting at the range.

That would be way too expensive for someone like me seriosly how much did that cost.

I really don't know how much it cost, but I was having fun doing it. It took a couple of summers to go through everything, and at that I'm still tinkering here and there. One thing that helped is I have a buddy who shoots a .50 cal and we split a lot of the costs.