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    .54 Caliber Round Ball Whitetail Load

    100 grains is plenty and 75 yards it's a killer. I know guys who like to go to 120 and all, but I'd suggest that you start with a bore full of powder, meaning 55 grains and work a load up from there in the black till its spreads then stop. Actually it might get tighter first too, then open up...
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    Musketoon and smallgame

    I've not shot a smoothbore other than my shotguns, but I was watching a video by a guy murpheymuskets who had what looked like a charleville and his shooting with that thing were quite an impression. They are a lot more accurate than I would have or have heard by them "experts" to be...
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    What range for deer hunting?

    I practice at our range on pie plates. I practice sitting mostly on the ground and now with also with a tripod/bipod, preferably also sitting. My longest shot on a deer was 123 lasered yards where I missed the first time over its back from a fairly steep downhill. My closest deer was 2 yards...
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    Whitetail hunting tips

    I'm with you on this. Scent control doesn't get any better than not having any cuz the wind is in your face. I used to hunt with a guy had a very very old and faded camo outfit that was washed so much it was almost like a white panama suit, but yet he was almost always successful in his hunting...
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    Musketoon and smallgame

    The musketoon and the Zoave also handle shot pretty well too. I don't remember where I originally read it, but I tried it both of my guns and found it to be a pretty fair spread out to twenty yards or so. Would you go duck hunting with this? Probably not, but grouse, erkel, and other ground...
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    Bulge in Barrel?

    I had a bulge in a .41 just around the breech area that was so big that you could actually have the ramrod drop on its own when it got to it.. :grin: It was quite accurate too, but a bulge is a bulge, and though I'm not any kind of engineer, intuition (my female side probably) tells me that the...
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    velocity question ???

    Boy, now you really got into the weeds... :grin: I was always curious why a 50 would do better than my 45's even though they both were of the same bullet weight and your right. The increased surface area the blast has to work on with a larger bore seems to be one of the main ingredients, the...
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    velocity question ???

    The slippery drag of a patch and the solid contact of the conical or unpatched ball are sure to make some differences in drag that could explain it, as too could the grainweight add to the differences. I'd follow the thoughts of others here and shoot for accuracy and take the speed you get as a...
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    Bulge in Barrel?

    You can see a bulge generally and you can absolutely feel it in the barrel with a tight patch.
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