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szihn
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?
24/08/08 01:08 AM

Yes Ben, that's correct.
And, to answer your 1st question, the 12 bore rifle is completely adequate for buffalo. In India in the 1870s, the 16 bore was the common gun. It's 66 cal, and the 12 is 72 caliber. The "secret" is to use hard balls.
I am not intimate with the Petersoli, so I can't recommend a load, but I have made quite a few single barreled British style stalking rifles over the years and have found that the 62 and 66 calibers kill all manor of American game very well. American Bison, brown bears and moos all fall dead with properly place hard balls.
I will be making a 12 bore Rigby style rifle in the near future for just such a purpose.

I use a charge of 165 gr of 2F black powder in the 12 bore, but some shoot even better with even heavier charges. Ball size and patch thickness will vary, depending on the barrel they go in. Some with shallow rifling and wide grooves (Forsyth style rifling) can get along with a ball only .005 under bore and a thing patch. Others with deeper rifling and/or narrower grooves need to go as much as .020" under bore size and use patches of .016" to .022" thick.

Good luck.

Steve

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Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Ben	23/08/08 07:12 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Kaimiloa	14/03/09 02:18 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	14/03/09 03:37 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Sarg	14/03/09 08:44 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Dphariss	15/09/08 04:17 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Ben	23/09/08 09:49 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Yogi000	05/12/08 07:13 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Dphariss	28/09/08 02:33 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Yogi000	04/12/08 06:07 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	szihn	04/12/08 03:26 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	05/12/08 07:12 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Tatume	23/09/08 09:54 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Dphariss	15/03/09 03:24 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Kaimiloa	20/03/09 11:31 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	21/03/09 03:03 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Kaimiloa	26/03/09 03:57 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	beleg2	26/03/09 10:32 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Kaimiloa	29/03/09 04:31 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	beleg2	30/03/09 01:10 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	tarawa	05/05/09 12:55 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	05/05/09 02:37 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	27/03/09 02:29 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Dphariss	22/03/09 03:05 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Birdhunter50	23/08/08 08:08 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Ben	23/08/08 10:42 PM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	szihn	24/08/08 01:08 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	Ben	24/08/08 09:34 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	beleg2	26/08/08 02:20 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	tarawa	26/08/08 02:32 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	451whitworth	28/08/08 11:25 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	05/09/08 01:44 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	451whitworth	05/09/08 10:24 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	05/09/08 11:10 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	451whitworth	06/09/08 01:10 PM
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	CptCurl	13/09/08 09:50 PM
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	DarylS	13/09/08 01:58 AM
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	degoins	26/08/08 05:23 AM
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	bigmaxx	27/08/08 01:35 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	degoins	27/08/08 01:40 AM
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	bigmaxx	24/08/08 01:08 AM

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