I've heard references to V M Starr's "pamphlet" many times so I ordered one earlier today for 9 bucks. I think I should have held off. I just "speed read" the whole thing on another site. Several times Old VM sounds like he doesn't know much about muzzleloaders, sometimes he even sounds like nothing but a big Dupa, to quote everyone from the neighborhood I grew up in. If there's any reference to arcane knowledge about squeezing out good patterns from essentially cylinder bored shotguns I completely missed it. Now I've just got a hadache from reading so much off a silly computer screen. How can people these days advocate reading entire books from such a thing? Strictly printed matter for this old coot when it comes to reading anything of length and/or substance.