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    Hunting with Roundballs

    Thanks for the info, 90 grains of 3f seems like a good place to start. Do you still get good mushrooming with pure lead round ball? Friends of mine who hunt a lot are very skeptical about hunting with blackpowder, they tend to think that they haven't really got enough knock down power and that...
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    Hunting with Roundballs

    Ive been looking into getting a .50cal flinter for hunting. Probably a pedersoli country hunter or scout carbine. There seems to be a large variation in .50cal loads for PRB. Is 70-80 grains of 2ff better than 100-110 grains of 3fff? What load would give the best knockdown? And does anyone go...
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    Hello from New Zealand

    Thanks for the welcome. I've been do a lot of reading on the forum and I'm amazed at the amount of great information there is. I only know of one other person that lives near me that has ever shot a deer with a muzzle loader, and that was a .45 PRB and he felt that was a little light but that...
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    Hello from New Zealand

    Hello from New Zealand. I live in the South Island just below Dunedin. I own a 2nd hand .45 percussion but I've been looking into getting a flintlock in.50 or .54 for deer hunting, some of those reds get pretty big.
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