When the sun is shining on both sides of the fence, I will take out my dad's old Winchester 92 in 25-20 on a woodchuck hunting foray. It was built in 1927, and though the bluing is worn from the carry point is in excellent condition. More than one or two woodchucks have fallen to it, and it really gets the job done whether the projectile is a pokey factory 86 grain soft nose, a Hornady 60 grain flat point or one of them new fangled 75 grain Speers that it really loves. I've never shot black powder in it, so I may be missing something, but don't want the woes of cleaning the innards, just in case. I will have to try sometime though, I love the smoke! The most interesting chuck I've gotten was a four fanged wonder, all of whose incisors had grown during hibernation, and had curled up (or down) in a circle until one top and one bottom had actually entered the skin just below the right eye, and the lower left jaw. Not a terribly uncommon fate, I've seen several others over the years.
Jamie