Good one Felix.
In India, baked clay balls were used for small game and birds. I can see that working.
R.
In India, baked clay balls were used for small game and birds. I can see that working.
R.
Brass balls...
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If it can be shaped to fit a bore, it's probably already been flung out of a muzzleloader at one time or another. Even arrows. After seeing an illustration of that, a bud started weighing arrows including bolts for crossbows. Ended up loading crossbow bolts with a fiber wad under them in his 50. Scary accurate and penetrated like nothing you've ever seen.
Clay balls would be real light in the britches, but I can see them working for small game. Once upon a time Remington loaded 22 Gallery loads featuring "clay and oil" bullets for use in carnival shooting galleries. Picked some up and tried them, and was impressed. And of course I tried them for head shots on rabbits. A whole lot like sticking a shotgun up against their head and pulling the trigger.
Balls for bigger game? You're playing a weight/density game and brass comes closer than lots of them, even though still light. Renowned and revered past member ROUNDBALL located some sized right for 58 caliber and found them amazingly accurate. Even killed deer with them and got great performance.
Ricochets? Dunno of any of the subs that aren't prone. Tried the ITX balls myself, and they whaaaaaanged off over the countryside with the best of them. Ran out before popping a deer, but I was impressed with the accuracy.
Einsiedler
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Seem to remember reading something. I believe it was in **** Woottens memoirs. Of removing copper fusil balls from hunting compatriots, who had been shot with them up in the Taos/Raton area by the local indigènes. Think it was Wootten. Been a while.
