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You would have to really load light to ever stick a ball in a barrel from too little pressure, and there is basically no way to ever damage your barrel from a very light load. Black powder is very forgiving in the loads and it's more a situation of getting a good group from your load. I would consider 30 grains of 3f as about as light as I would want to hunt anything with though.
A lot of people don't use over 30 grains shooting 25 yd. targets in competition, so if your rifle will shoot good with that load, don't worry.
In the days of old, I would guess that mountain men used a lot of very light loads to hunt small game, just to conserve powder, which was hard to find when they needed it.
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