Traditional PRB Hunters: What caliber will you use opening day?

[roundball]

What caliber will you be using opening day for big game...deer, elk, etc?

.45cal?
.50cal?
.54cal?
.58cal?
.62cal?
Other?

 

[hawk]

the .62/20 bore for moose and bear this season.i'll bring my .54 for a spare.

....good hunting to you all.

 

[dbutch]

62 cal flint..Whitetails...58 cal spare percussion..used 54 cal last season..planning on having the 58 in flint for next season.
Good luck to all you hunters this fall!

 

[SgtSchutzen]

The only "big game" we have around here are whitetail deer. I`ve been shooting them for years with my old .45 CVA Kentucky and plan to continue the tradition.

 

[roundball]

.62 cal flint..Whitetails

Same here, hope to christen the .62cal smoothbore Virginia

 

[jethro224]

:hmm: Hopefully a .62, maybe a .54, or maybe a .50, ...or a .75 smoothie... :idunno: I might even tote 2 of 'em.

 

[hawk]

jethro you sound like me for deer season might even use my bow a couple days :shocked2:

 

[shootemup]

.40

 

[roundball]

Well, I see a mix of replies regarding PRB, AND shot loads, AND archery equipment scattered through the 3 polls...but the 3 polls were actually entitled and aimed at "Traditional PRB (Patched Round Ball) Hunters"...

:grin:

 

[wattlebuster]

.54 for deer or any coyote that happens along. deer are the only big game we got here.

 

[Kentucky45]

Opening day here is only 3 weeks away, archery season, a 58# Moon longbow and traditional arrows with 2 blade broadheads. After that I'll use that loud, smokey, heavy, addictive old side hammer .50 cal. for hogs and deer. Lets go now.

 

[longcruise]

.54 this sat morn. Would use a .58 if I had one! Will pack along a .50 and use for deer if elk tag is filled first just because the little .50 has not been blooded yet.

 

[PaulN/KS]

The 54 is my go to caliber in three different rifles. Hardest part is pickin' which one to "go to"... :grin:

 

[tg]

My Fusil bore is .58 the ball I use may be a .562/.570 .550 or .535 I like to play around with the windages and smaller balls used in the past a bit of "touching history"

 

[hawk]

Well, I see a mix of replies regarding PRB, AND shot loads, AND archery equipment scattered through the 3 polls...but the 3 polls were actually entitled and aimed at "Traditional PRB (Patched Round Ball) Hunters"...

:grin:

sorry bill gotta little carried away whith my plans (house full of wife & girls of which neither of them share my feelings for the hunt) i'll try to go back to one word replies again

hope I didn't ruffle to many feathers


.62 cal

 

[rwiliff]

.562 ball in a .58 flint lock

Robert

 

[Kentucky45]

Well, I see a mix of replies regarding PRB, AND shot loads, AND archery equipment scattered through the 3 polls...but the 3 polls were actually entitled and aimed at "Traditional PRB (Patched Round Ball) Hunters"...:grin:

:surrender: OK I did it too. But you have to realize it's nearly deer season and some of us are really getting the fever bad. We're not thinking right and I think my old neck is starting to swell. I found myself pawing ground and rubbing a small tree yesterday. So it may not be my fault. K45

 

[roundball]

No harm at all...I just chuckled when I started reading write-in posts 'cause I've done it too
:grin:

 

[chance]

50 cal.

 

[Dave K]

I can't answer you polls yet. It may be the 62 smoothbore or it may be the 50 rifle. Both are flint though.