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Typical accuracy ‘from the bench for hunting purposes’ (are you actually hunting from a bench?) with minimal effort will likely be 6” or less groups at 100 yards with patched roundballs with either gun. It will all depend on if you are lucky and ‘choose wisely’ when selecting your common shooting components and your shooting ability. One thing you may want to spend just a bit of time on, particularly if you are starting with a gun not previously shot (Lyman has been out of the muzzleloader business for some time now, and NOS doesn’t come up that often) is cleaning up any sharp machining edges you may find at the muzzle (they tend to be rough on patches) by hand or running a couple hundred rounds through the barrel. If any burrs are present either method will typically improve accuracy once removed.