Caliber question

[skeet]

Originally Posted by Adam Helmer

skeet,

My hunting muzzleloaders are .50 and .54 since I prefer to use roundball for deer. When I take the .45 flinter out, she is stoked with 245 grain Maxis because I feel .45 RB is a bit light for deer.

Adam

And I would have to agree with ya on that . I shot a deer once with a 45 Roundball. Wasn't a long shot but I felt the same way.. 45 Maxi was probably much better. Ya know to be really honest.. I never got the maxi fever. Never got 'em to shoot all that great. I had a TC Hawken that had a roundball bbl with a 66 twist(IIRC) and it was a couple of inches longer. It shot RB really well. 50 cal and it shot 490 RBs in a thing called a poly patch?? Well... it was green and it held the roundball. It shot a lot better than a patched round ball for some reason. Sure easier to load too. BTW I liked Black rather than Pyrodex too. Never cared much for them pellets either. About the most I ever used was 100 gr of 3Fg..Would recock the hammer some of the time..but it was more accurate than 2Fg. A pain in the A$$ to clean. For some odd reason when the first muzzleloader season came in I really liked bein out there...Cold snow and pretty much alone..but that was the way it was where I hunted anyway. alone.