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Well, the article tells you what kind of damage it will do; penetration in wood and sand. It sounds to me like it would cause serious injury to anyone hit with it, even at those ranges. Therefore, I would like to know the velocity. Why ? Because we (shooters/hunters) tend to believe that nothing short of a cannon is sufficent to hunt with or defend our lives. This is BS, and I think this article is a good example of why this is BS. Calibers and loads that worked on game and for self defense 100 years ago will still work fine for the same purposes today.
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You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
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