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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on January 07, 2017, 09:03:22 am ---Get a .32 for hares and squirrels and get a .50 for deer. There isn't one caliber that is more accurate than the next. Accuracy comes from experimenting with charges and rounds, as Ksnow mentioned.

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You want to explain why almost every single accuracy record is held by the .40 caliber?

loon:
A 40 cal Minie ball out of a rifle really can't be accurate to 300 yards? Or a 50 cal?

jayman448:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on January 07, 2017, 12:04:27 am ---Sort of depends on what you want to do with it.  .40 cal will stop a deer, you can load down for smaller game,  .50 cal will stop an elk with a heavy load
Hawkdancer

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 so i dont mean to get offensive... but if we here believe anything in the right range and right shot placement can be taken with a stick and pointy rock moving at the speed of dust in the wind... why dont we figure a 35 cal will do deer or a 40 cal will do an elk? again no offense just curious as to mentalities or experiences/ tests done on penetration and such

Eric Krewson:
One of my good friends has won just about every M/L championship in the country at one time or another. He shoots a .40 as does most of his competitors, that should tell you something.

half eye:
My experience is the same as Erik mentioned. My favorite target guns are both 40 cal flinters one is for the Michigan 6 bull targets and the other is for the off-hand poker chip shoots and running deer targets. Both are extremely accurate. I would not think anything at all about 75 yard head shots.

Having said all that, the original folks associated bore size to range not accuracy. A .730 round ball will carry energy farther than will a .580 for example. It is a simple matter of a round ball having poor ballistic coefficient as well as low sectional density, when compared to a long high sectional density modern bullet.

Roundball muzzel-loading shooting is a mind set, they are accurate (or can be made so) and have proven to be effective. Learn to shoot accurately, follow through, get your lock-time to a minimum, and keep the sport alive.
rich

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