[4v50 Gary]

I generally don't read the hunting articles. While I can see the merits of modern in-lines, I've no attraction to them. The Oct. 2009 issue of Muzzle Blasts has an article where the writer uses a Euroarms .451 Volunteer rifle to take down a buck antelope. I've always maintained that Civil War era guns and their repros were very capable of taking game and so I found this article interesting. The shooter uses a flat-nosed, 565 grain paper-patched bullet propelled by 95 grains FF to bag his buck at 150 plus yards. The next day he harvested a second one at 160 yards.

[Cosmoline]

I've always maintained that Civil War era guns and their repros were very capable of taking game and so I found this article interesting.

Thanks for the heads up! I agree completely. The .58 cals are excellent medicine and have never been given the props they deserve. Folks tend to consider them "military guns" and therefore unsuitable for game. But they were designed to stop charging war horses and the rifle muskets of the CW era can be loaded to produce respectable groups. Certainly good enough for the field. And in fact a lot of poor folk used them after the CW for just that purpose.

[dwave]

Why not? My bro uses an 1860 Springer repo hunting. He used a 500gr .58 Minie ball to get a deer last year. Hit it at about 75 yards and did a real number on it.

[BHP FAN]

.58? I imagine it would knock a deer into next wendsday.