Big PRB Meat Ruiner?

[Edlebrock454]

I just recently bought myself a 10 Gauge double and bought some RB's for it and was wondering was it going to make instant hamburger meat out of the deer? I usually shoot decent 150lb to 175lb bucks and 100lb to 120lb does and I was wondering is it going to stop in the animal at decent velocities (1500fps)or is it going to blow out and keep going to the next county, I guess the way I'm wording this is a lot about penetration too, any help on large PRB's would be a big help

 

[paulvallandigham]

Keep the velocity down around 1000 fps. and don't worry about whether its going to kill the deer. I don't think you can reasonably expect a ball that heavy to stay inside the body of a deer, unless shot end to end. A broadside shot is going to show too big holes. The nearside will be 10 gauge, the off-side will be lots bigger.

You don't need 1500 fps velocity for that ball to penetrate anything, including a 400 lb. wild boar. Save your should, in the process.

And, just to satisfy yourself, set up a box of pine boards, spaced 1 inch apart, and being 1 inch thick boards( actually 7/8"), and do some comparision penetration testing with your 1500 fps load, and my recommended 1,000 fps load. I am not going to tell you the results. Some things you just have to enjoy learning on your own. :rotf: :wink:

 

[pastor]

Place it behind the shoulder and you will never tell by eating it that it wasn't shot with a .50 cal. hit in the meat areas yes some waste but still plenty of "goood eatn". 1000-1200 fps would be better I think in a 10ga.
Have fun and keep it safe.

 

[texcl]

ml'S aren't like modern guns they don't spoil much meat no matter how big the ball is, even deer struck with my .62 had less spoiled meat than a deer shot with a 30/30 or a .223 for that matter, because the ball stays together.

 

[Black Hand]

...and the RBs are much slower moving with a larger surface area that most "pencil" bullets.

 

[kherring]

I shoot a .50 cal flint rifle with 60 grains of powder. 50 is not a big bore as far as muzzleloaders go, and it's a low velocity. I shoot deer behind the shoulder, and when I peel back the hide I have noticed very little blood shock damage. Pop em in the lungs and there should be very little lost meat. Good luck.

 

[J.D.]

Nope. The ones I killed with an 11 Ga bess went down in about 20 yards. The .715 ball got full penetration, including one shoulder with little to no meat damage.

IMHO, it takes a LOT to stop that big ball, even at low velocities, so poor penetration is not a consideration.

God bless

 

[rabjr]

Heres two I hit with .715 ball and 82 gr powder. The first I swear reacted to the flash in the pan as he was quartering to me and I hit him higher than I wanted to. If you scoll down you'll see the balls path.
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/213432/post/485501/hl//fromsearch/1/

A few days later I put a Doe down broadside, with the same load and only lost a handful of bloody/ bruised meat on that on.
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/214830/post/499791/hl//fromsearch/1/

Bottom line, hit them right, you don't loose much meat.

 

[poordevil]

As Elmer Keith said of big slow moving bullets......"You can eat the bullet hole"

P

 

[Rancocas]

Others have given you good advise here. However, no one has mentioned your double, so far. You don't say what it is other than a 10 ga. double. You want to shoot round ball with it - are you absolutely sure the gun is set up for that? Are you sure there is no choke in those barrels?

 

[Grizzled Roberts]

I've never had to track one once I parked a .54 or .62 ball dead center of the rib cage! I have not had a shot at one with my bigger calibers.
I have a Friend who has killed several deer with broadside shots from a .54 loaded with 60 grains of 3F. He did not recover a ball from any of these deer. The 60 grain load plowed on through
around 50 yards for the shots.
Shooting them with a 10 bore double barrel should be a cakewalk, unless you were dead set on recovering your lead!

:thumbsup:

 

[Edlebrock454]

Thanks for the advice gents, I've never shot a deer with anything larger than my .50's and all so I am a complete novice to the larger bore's and those punkin ball's. And the gun is a double and it is choked cylinder on the right for the PRB and modified on thee left for a buckshot load, occasionally in the brush that I do hunt sometimes I get 15 yard shots and then 75 yard shots down a firebreak so the RB is an idea I definitely plan on trying, thanks.