Old Stumpy
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No, thou shall not...not today anyway. 70 grains of black will not fit in modern cases due to the thick brass solid head case. Original cases were thin copper with folded rims - they gave poor extraction performance and failed Custer’s troopers at the Little Big Horn. The suggested load of 63 grains (post #4 above) is about all that will fit in modern brass.
Not today perhaps. Not without a drop tube and a powder compression die anyway.
However, these instructions are an excerpt from the:
Book of Armaments,
Chapter 2, verses 9 to 21,
Holy Loading Instructions of Antioch,
For Ye Springfield musket with breech loadeth casing, which containeth thy holy black powder and ball.
A very old instruction manual......