.54 cal round ball larger game...

[JeffG]

Thanks for the replies. In my opinion, to shoot game as big this , MY gun isn't up for it. I want to shoot a gun that gives better line of sight penetration, I feel that would be rifled. .54 caliber isn't the problem; the smoothbore ball is veering off, in my opinion, because of the lack of rifling spin.A rifled gun would solve most of this...I don't want a shot-after-shot kill. I'm going to be on the ground with this beast, maybe a mile from help; I've been charged before. Here is the herd bull, a couple years ago.

Watusi

 

[JeffG]

later in the tests, I reversed the sequence, putting the carpet then the jug, then the 2x4. The results of the ball wanting to veer off were pretty much the same.

 

[Stumpkiller]

No trouble with whitetail up to 215 lbs dressed I have annoyed with mine.

It the early days of expansion a .54 Hawken with round ball was about as large a rifle as was carried. It accounted for many elk and buffalo in the hands of a patient and skilled hunter.

I'm not sure how far a Watusi can throw a spear so I'd practice past 50 yards. ;-)

 

[azmntman]

Thanks for the replies. In my opinion, to shoot game as big this , MY gun isn't up for it. I want to shoot a gun that gives better line of sight penetration, I feel that would be rifled. .54 caliber isn't the problem; the smoothbore ball is veering off, in my opinion, because of the lack of rifling spin.A rifled gun would solve most of this...I don't want a shot-after-shot kill. I'm going to be on the ground with this beast, maybe a mile from help; I've been charged before. Here is the herd bull, a couple years ago.

They look like a TX Long Horn


Watusi

 

[Sean Gadhar]

When you go, try to film it. If you shoot and the thing drops like a ton of bricks . . . we will all want to see.


PS If you shoot, the ball bounces off his butt and he comes over and uses that damn big horn to drag you through half a mile of Texas scrub . . . The whole damn world will want to watch!! :rotf:

 

[excess650]

I shot this large WT (46"+ chest girth, so 300#) at about 25 yards as it walked by. I purposely shot into the shoulder for a stop ASAP. The ball did not exit, and was just under the hide on the offside. The load was 100gr Goex fffg, "hardened" .605" RB cast from 9bhn.

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The recovered ball measures 7/8" x 15/16" and shed less than 1gr (326gr)