Hi Quigley...
One thing I have been able to benefit by are the kids themselves. Kids love shooting, whether a slingshot, a bow, a muzzleloader, a 22 ... you name it, they are drawn to the sport in any form.
The fact that black powder is a hands on sport, makes it more fun for them. We have had kids stay to shoot all day with the muzzleloaders, just as they would with a 22. They hit a can with a muzzleloader, and sometimes they get a huge eruption of dirt and grass along with it ... and they just love it.
One thing we like to do with the kids, is to have them go on an "easter bullet" hunt ... that is, look for the spent bullet in the ground after thay shoot. We use maybe 30 grains of powder with the real young kids and so the bullets don't get very deformed when shot into the ground, nor when it goes through the target and usually if you send them out to about 50 or 60 yards looking for spend lead, they will come back with a handful of them. Great fun for all actually.
Aloha..
