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Straight wall cartridges for muzzleloader?
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<blockquote data-quote="Smells Like Sulfur" data-source="post: 5759369" data-attributes="member: 23644"><p>I've always thought about hunting deer out of my side-by-side black powder muzzleloader using three .490 caliber patch round balls (same as most modern ML's, which are totally legal deer, ammunition, just too much of it). You could probably develop some kind of sabot that holds them together when they come out of the barrel and then breaks them apart a few inches later. It's pretty close to the maximum load, and I know one of those balls will drop a deer, much less six. The kinetic energy of being hit by three 177 grain lead balls in somewhat close proximity, at about 1000fps, to each other is devastating, and I have a second barrel for a follow-up shot, which is a luxury that most muzzleloading hunters don't have. As long as the hunter doesn't try for a "lucky" shot, I don't see how using large caliber buckshot would be considered not humane.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I know it's illegal, and no I won't do it, it's just something I've thought about.</p><p></p><p>I would guess the no shotgun law is in place to prevent idiots with #1 or #0 trying to take anything at 100 yds, or shooting 000 buck into the sky where it eventually falls down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smells Like Sulfur, post: 5759369, member: 23644"] I've always thought about hunting deer out of my side-by-side black powder muzzleloader using three .490 caliber patch round balls (same as most modern ML's, which are totally legal deer, ammunition, just too much of it). You could probably develop some kind of sabot that holds them together when they come out of the barrel and then breaks them apart a few inches later. It's pretty close to the maximum load, and I know one of those balls will drop a deer, much less six. The kinetic energy of being hit by three 177 grain lead balls in somewhat close proximity, at about 1000fps, to each other is devastating, and I have a second barrel for a follow-up shot, which is a luxury that most muzzleloading hunters don't have. As long as the hunter doesn't try for a "lucky" shot, I don't see how using large caliber buckshot would be considered not humane. Yes, I know it's illegal, and no I won't do it, it's just something I've thought about. I would guess the no shotgun law is in place to prevent idiots with #1 or #0 trying to take anything at 100 yds, or shooting 000 buck into the sky where it eventually falls down. [/QUOTE]
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