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Ok I have to ask this then; what could she be used for with a 600gr ball at 1500 fps???

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Just about anything, I imagine!!
With 'standard' soft lead ~1:20 alloy, great for large plains game or equivalent.
With properly hardened lead, all of the big five if history is any judge.

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At short range is the 577 still king of the hill Tony?

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Much of a muchness I reckon. Energy-wise, however, the 'historical' 5-dram spherical 12-bore produces a bit over 3000 ftlbs ME,
while the .577 in 'standard' N-for-B loading coughs up almost 4000 ftlbs.
Bullet weight is more than 100 grains heavier, too. That's a no-brainer IMHO, despite the experiences of the long-dead quoted above.
The 12-bore has greater cross-sectional area though, so would probably have a perceived advantage at 'in-your-face' distances,
and in heavier loads (requiring heavier rifles!) it will overtake the .577 at some point.
Personally, I love them both!

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A Tolley chart from the 1880s listed 1300fps for a 5 dram load and roundball, but it took almost 1500fps to uncross with Blue Dot

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'modern' black powder (especially Goex!) is around 10 percent less 'powerful' than the original stuff....
How about different brands of substitute?

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Definitely can make a difference. Swiss seems to be much better than Goex according to others,
also Seyfried used a powder ~10 years ago which practically matched Curtis's & Harvey's No.6, but it became unavailable in the US soon after.
He published several stories implicating that powder in the BP Hunter magazine at the time, anyone remember it?

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