Deer vs .12ga

[rabjr]

I'll be gettin serious with my newly minted gun here soon and start tossin round some .690s. I'm kinda hoping that it likes 3 drams of FF powder or close to that. Around 80 to 85 grains should be enough to TKO any Deer out to 60, 70 yards and that load shouldn't bother me much from a 6 and 1/2 lb gun. How close are my thoughts to others that use a 12 ga ball for hunting deer?

 

[Shelby Skinner]

I think you'll run out of accuracy before you run out of steam with a .69 round ball... Depends on your gun. Call it 70 yards. 100 yards if you can hold it to minute of deer.

 

[boar]

My 12 yr old grandson shot his first deer using a 12ga, He shot it right in heart at 70yrds, with a RB. This is a 150yr old double, His dad bought at Log Cabin Supply. They thought it was a English Gun. He shot a limb off a tree with first shot, cocked the other barrel and shot the deer. I was on the ground beneath the tree stand, his dad was in stand with him. I think the ball is oz And eighth and he was using 70grs of 2ff. Not bad for frist deer. I didn't get mine till I was 44. His dad hasn't got one yet. Dilly

 

[armymedic.2]

power to him!

 

[Leonredbeard]

Swamp rat,
a .69 caliber ball has devastating power! I was shooting a .54 with a root system of a blown down tree as a backstop. The system was around a foot think with earth and small stones. Multiple hits only pock marked it with 90 grains of 3ffg. The first .69 ball with 100 grains of 2fg behind it blew a big hole clear thru. I think the comparison is adequate. I have taken two deer with the .54 and it is no slouch!
volatpluvia

 

[Wes/Tex]

Those big bores are real terror one trees! Those balls don't need a lot of velocity to work on game. I tell folks the animals die from pneumonia from the air rushing in & out! :winking:

 

[rabjr]

Thats what I was thinking. I really want to shoot this one a lot and have fun doing it. So I'm hoping she likes 80 grs or so. :v

 

A 12 gauge ball is a .729, but I suppose you do shoot a .69 ball out of a 12 gauge hole? Anyway, when I was a lad in good ol' PA a a bunch of the oldtimers used 12 gauge "punkin balls" on deer. It probably ranked right up there with the 30oughtsix. I remember the old curmudgeons still--dressed in high lace boots, red plaid wool jackets and red wool caps with earflaps. Pockets full of 12 gauge ball loads and likely a Case sheath knife on their hip....ah, the good ol'days--and by the way they killed a bunch of deer with them...

 

[rabjr]

Heh I remember some those days too only it was the old Forster type slugs used mostly here at that time.

My guns bore is .730 hence the .690 ball. :v

 

[Roy]

:hmm: "Deer vs .12ga" My bet is on the gun :grin: