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BowEd:
Strelets...true enough.

--- Quote from: bradsmith2010 on October 23, 2017, 11:20:51 am ---yes I tell my wife it doesnt hurt the deer when I shoot them,, she just looks at me funny,,, )P(

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That's a good one Brad.Robin tells me to just not shoot a baby one. )P(

Hawkdancer:
I think the running is more apt to happen regardless of weapon.  Rifle/muzzleloader bully/ball are are Mach 1.5/2+ and they still run even with a heart/lung shot.  I had one hit with my .58 cal. with round ball in a rib going in, decimated heart and lungs, still went 75 yards.  Had another run up hill almost 100 yards after a standing heart shot.  Haven't had a bow kill yet.
Hawkdancer

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on October 24, 2017, 11:08:15 pm ---I think the running is more apt to happen regardless of weapon.  Rifle/muzzleloader bully/ball are are Mach 1.5/2+ and they still run even with a heart/lung shot.  I had one hit with my .58 cal. with round ball in a rib going in, decimated heart and lungs, still went 75 yards.  Had another run up hill almost 100 yards after a standing heart shot.  Haven't had a bow kill yet.
Hawkdancer

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I have a buddy that I turned into a flintlock shooter after he turned me into a bowyer. Turnabout was fair play, I think.

His deer shot with his .54 have always run.  He double lunged a buck once and he recovered it nearly half a mile away.  I tend to see mine go down at 20-40 yds.  Neither of us is a "hot loader", he shoots 85 grains in his .54, I load with 70 in my .50 cal.

BowEd:
Yes JW I've had a jonathon browning .54 hawken since 1980 and shot dozens of deer with it.Black walnut stock/brass and iron furniture.I put a 35" badger barrel on it instead of the 30" barrel that came with the gun.10/1000ths deep rifling.Slow twist of 66".Meant for round ball shooting.Still have it.Put a finer blade front site on it too.Very accurate.All round ball[.52 cal. with a .10 thick pillow tick patch/I think 280 grain weight] loads many times with only 60 grains of black powder at ranges under 50 yards and a bit more powder past that range.I keep paper patch quick loads I make with me of different grain loads.I can truly actually say every deer I hit with it died.Usually always going down somewhere's between 50 to 100 yards.Depending on whether a good shoulder hit happened they went down earlier.It is my only go to big game rifle.
Is'nt much different with a good sharp broadhead as far as distance deer go after being shot most times.I'll say this though bow hunting at close range is more work but more exciting if the deer are around.
Like I've read said.Dead is dead at 20 yards or 200 yards.

Will Tell:
I've had a few drop in their tracks, two with rifle slugs out of a 12 gauge shotgun and one spine shot buck the spine shot put him down but he was far from dead. I had to shoot him again. Both 12 gauge shots were in the shoulder.

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