How many use the roundball???

Patched round balls fer me and they don't git back up. So...I reckon they'll do.

 

[nessmuk]

I use the round ball only. I got a bear with a .50 cal with 80 gr of 3f, several deer with the .45 cal with 70 gr. of 3f, and I hope to get an elk next week in Colorado with 100 gr of 3F in a .54 rifle. I have used the .54 for deer but prefer the .45. The round ball never let me down and I cast my own round balls.

 

[whitetrash078]

I use .735 prb over 90gr 2f for deer in bess

i also use a caplock :shocked2: T/C 56 cal smoothbore when it is rainy for deer.

the round ball kills em dead as anything else, no matter what Jim Shockey says :blah:

 

[roundball]

I use .735 prb over 90gr 2f for deer in bess

i also use a caplock :shocked2: T/C 56 cal smoothbore when it is rainy for deer.

the round ball kills em dead as anything else, no matter what Jim Shockey says :blah:

And no matter what toby bridgers says too! :blah:

 

[Bob J]

.535 roundball for deer and hog.

.360 roundball for squirrel and turkey.

 

[nchawkeye]

I use a .40 caliber flintlock for squirrels and a .54 flinter for deer...round balls in both...

 

[biliff]

Have used the .54 (.530 RB) on bear and deer, the .58 (.570 RB) on pig and deer.

 

[tg]

RB's areall I have ever used from .40 to .72 on deer/Elk and small game/grouse50-54 is a good all round choice for deer/elk, if one matches the cal. to the game and get close, all will work out fine.

 

[crgabel]

All I use is RB
40 cal for Tree Rats and Ground hogs
50 cal took a Wild Boar down
28 Ga Smoothbore for Tree Rats, Dove,Crow, and rabbit.
54 Cal for Deer
11 Ga blunderbuss as a snake gun (anything i can shove into the barrel.)
Craig

 

[dlemaster]

I didn't know there was any other kind of projectile for BP :rotf:
I use .54, .58, 60, .62 cals. Killed a cow elk with the .60 and used them all for deer and anything else.

Regards, Dave

 

[laufer]

.54 for mule deer and elk.

 

[Swamp Buck]

54 cal round ball. Looking forward to this deer season.

 

[leadball]

50 cal prb bear over bait and deer

 

[shortjack]

I use a 50 cal Lyman GP rifle with a patched roundball for deer and coyotes. 7 years ago when I first started muzzle load hunting I used a TC Hawken with conicals. I have had better luck with the patched roundballs as far as killing effectiveness. The farthest I have had to chase a deer with a patched roundball was 100 yards, when I got to him he was already dead, shot thru both lungs at 50 yards. With a conical I have chased them anywhere from 500 yards to a 1/2 mile and they were still alive and I had to shoot them again,the conical just doesn't seem to expand and kill them as quick at least not in my experiences.

 

[marwat06]

.50 cal for Whitetail Deer

 

[Ron LaClair]

.32 PRB for squirrels

.54 PRB for deer

.62 PRB for Moose

 

[Sharp Shooter]

.54 for elk.

What is your powder charge? How effective is it on elk?

 

[Gemoke]

I`VE never used anything else.
cut finger

 

[Greenmtnboy]

.54 for elk.

What is your powder charge? How effective is it on elk?

110 grns of ffg goex straight through at 100 yrds
doublelung
:hatsoff:

 

[Norskie]

.490 patched round ball in a 1 in 48" 28" barrel. Plants deer better than the .270. I sold that centerfire.