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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4953202" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>The classic reason when people really used black powder and lead bullets was that since velocity is limited with black powder, the only way to gain power was to add weight. With modern muzzle loaders most everybody shoots light weight for caliber bullets really since most use sabots to shoot sub caliber bullets. I started out shooting just a 200 grain 40 caliber TC bullet from my 50 caliber in-line. I did that to keep recoil as low as possible to help my shooting. These bullets worked perfectly on the 3 deer ?I can recall killing with them. Then i switched to a 44 caliber bullet i cast myself just because i wanted to use my own bullets. When going from 40 to 44 caliber you are going to gain some weight and i had a particular bullet I wanted to use and it happened to weigh 310 grains so that's what I've hunted with a year or two now. Really about any bullet you stuff in a 50 caliber muzzle loader will work for deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4953202, member: 12277"] The classic reason when people really used black powder and lead bullets was that since velocity is limited with black powder, the only way to gain power was to add weight. With modern muzzle loaders most everybody shoots light weight for caliber bullets really since most use sabots to shoot sub caliber bullets. I started out shooting just a 200 grain 40 caliber TC bullet from my 50 caliber in-line. I did that to keep recoil as low as possible to help my shooting. These bullets worked perfectly on the 3 deer ?I can recall killing with them. Then i switched to a 44 caliber bullet i cast myself just because i wanted to use my own bullets. When going from 40 to 44 caliber you are going to gain some weight and i had a particular bullet I wanted to use and it happened to weigh 310 grains so that's what I've hunted with a year or two now. Really about any bullet you stuff in a 50 caliber muzzle loader will work for deer. [/QUOTE]
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