I just read an interesting article in an old MuzzleBlasts mag. It was about a story of a guy shooting a panther and digging the ball out and hammering it round again and using it on his next shot to kill a deer. The man that wrote the article did an experiment by taking a hammer and flattening out some balls to resemble retreved balls from game and then hammered them as close to round as possible,without measuring. The target was set at 25yds. and was shot at 15 times and all shots were in the 9-ring. I was wondering if anybody has done this,I am going to try it as soon as I can get a chance.