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TBAUS · August 19, 2002, 05:18 PM

That is exactly what I shoot with for deer. I use 70 or 75 gr FF on a patched round ball. It works just fine on shots out to 100 yards. I won one of Texas' black powder hunt packages last year. We could shoot white tail and any ferrel animals. There were a lot of ferrel goats running the ridges. The last day of the hunt I stalked into the goats again and shot a big niced horned specimin at about 125 yards with my Hawken pushing a .495 round ball with 75 grains of FF. The ball went through the meat of his right front leg, through his rib cage, his heart, out the other side of his rib cage ( a little bigger hole now) and through the meat of his left front leg. He took 2 wobbly steps and collapsed. A well placed shot with that load is plenty.

August 19, 2002, 05:18 PM	#2
TBAUS Senior Member Join Date: August 15, 2002 Location: Central Texas Posts: 111	That is exactly what I shoot with for deer. I use 70 or 75 gr FF on a patched round ball. It works just fine on shots out to 100 yards. I won one of Texas' black powder hunt packages last year. We could shoot white tail and any ferrel animals. There were a lot of ferrel goats running the ridges. The last day of the hunt I stalked into the goats again and shot a big niced horned specimin at about 125 yards with my Hawken pushing a .495 round ball with 75 grains of FF. The ball went through the meat of his right front leg, through his rib cage, his heart, out the other side of his rib cage ( a little bigger hole now) and through the meat of his left front leg. He took 2 wobbly steps and collapsed. A well placed shot with that load is plenty.