Bullet wound black powder?

Getting shot with black powder gun is much like ANY gunshot wound, excepting the bullets tend to be larger.

It's going to HURT. A lot. The closest I can even try to explain is, it's like having a red hot iron rod shoved through your skin. on a pain scale, it's somewhere between childbirth(without the drugs or endorphins to help) and having your kneecap smashed with a baseball bat. You may not pass out, but you better have someone bring you a fresh change of underwear.

Depending on WHERE you get shot it MAY kill you right away. But, most gunshots are to non-vital areas, and most fatalities are as a result of bleeding to death.

Going with your example of a Black powder musket, presumably loaded with a musket ball, at close range, it would be nearly identical to being shot with any other 50+ caliber bullet. If it struck just flesh, it would most likely exit easily, leaving a fairly large wound at entrance and exit. On the other hand, the larger mass is more likely to strike bone, rather than pass between them. so, if shot in the chest, odds are good that the round would punch through your front, and be stopped by the rear ribcage.

In the historical times when black powder muskets dominated the battle field, MOST deaths from gunshot were as a result of bleeding to death, the doctor/barber's attempt to FIX the wound, or simple infection.

About the only exception to this would be modern black powder shotguns, or dueling.

The modern black powder shotguns are mostly used for hunting, therefore the number of humans hit with BP propelled buckshot is almost zero.

As far as I can tell, from historical accounts, the black powder dueling pistol death rate was fairly low. Most of the time, one of the duelists would MISS, and the other would only wound the opponent. Again, most deaths were as the result of infections.

Black Powder Dueling Pistols