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Plains99
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Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction
      10/07/07 12:35 AM

Read Gregor Woods' book about African rifles and you will get similar opinions. I have noticed this to be especially true with muzzleloaders which don't generate a lot of muzzle energy because of low velocities. In spite of that, I've taken a lot of big game with 400 grain muzzleloader projectiles traveling at 1350 FPS and witnessed outstanding trauma effects. On an Indian River Buffalo hunt a 600-grain muzzleloader slug over 120 grains of powder exhibited better penetration and bullet performance than a .470 using solids at the same range. While I don't know if this is a practical or consistent observation, it was certainly impressive at that time.

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* muzzle energy--fact or fiction Ripp 03/07/07 04:26 AM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction allenday   12/07/07 04:06 AM
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. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction DarylS   13/07/07 12:16 AM
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. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction Ripp   04/07/07 12:27 PM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction Plains99   10/07/07 12:35 AM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction DarylS   10/07/07 01:32 AM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction SAHUNT   10/07/07 04:58 AM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction TilleyMan   10/07/07 09:27 PM
. * * Re: muzzle energy--fact or fiction Ripp   10/07/07 09:42 PM

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