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Dphariss
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Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?
15/03/09 03:24 PM

It is impossible to shoot hardened conicals in traditional hunting arms with any accuracy.
The soft conical will not penetrate as well as a hardened RB. They also tend to veer off track when striking the animal. RBs generally do not.
This is why hardened RBs were used "back in the day" rather than conicals for the larger dangerous game. Lions and such did not need that much penetration.
The conical was tried in the 19th century and found to be unsatisfactory on several counts. The hardened RB was generally used for dangerous game until the advent of the BL guns that COULD use hardened conicals. Then the calibers were also reduced.
With good shot placement and an adequate charge of powder 6-7 drams of FFG it should work OK with a hard RB.
Pondoro Taylor was killing African Elephant and Rhino with a 10 bore using RBs in the 1930s when his ammo shipment was misdirected or lost. If a 10 bore with 6 drams and a hard ball will kill elephant I cannot see a 72 failing on Buffalo.
Its in his book "Pondoro" by John Taylor.

Dan

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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
Re: Could the Pedersoli .72 double be successful on buffalo?	bonanza	13/09/08 06:43 AM
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?	degoins	27/08/08 01:40 AM
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