Lets be honest with powder charges.
#31
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RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
A big ol lead throwin sum gun 45-70 didnt need no stinkin 100 grains powder to take buffler out to 2-300 yards.
#32
RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
FG
If that were the answer to all (45-70) why in the heck did they come out with the Sharps 90 and 120 versions of that gun - because even in them days they needed them... the 70 did not do it all...
If that were the answer to all (45-70) why in the heck did they come out with the Sharps 90 and 120 versions of that gun - because even in them days they needed them... the 70 did not do it all...
#33
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RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
Same reason they brought out the 150g mag inlines, People think bigger is better. Not like it takes 150g powder to kill a whitetail/mule deer/ elk.
If the companies put out a .32 squirrel rifle that said 150 Magnum engraved on the side, I'd bet you'd see'em using it too
They also had the .54/90
If the companies put out a .32 squirrel rifle that said 150 Magnum engraved on the side, I'd bet you'd see'em using it too
They also had the .54/90
#34
RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
FG
But it still goes back to the PRB - everybody thought was the end all do all also...
It has been proven many times over bigger is better when needed. Shoot 150 grains is nothing when you start looking at a 4 bore used by many BG hunters in Europe/Africa years ago and even they were not big enough or fast enough.
But it still goes back to the PRB - everybody thought was the end all do all also...
It has been proven many times over bigger is better when needed. Shoot 150 grains is nothing when you start looking at a 4 bore used by many BG hunters in Europe/Africa years ago and even they were not big enough or fast enough.
#35
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RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
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Oog: Me like dis rock for killing wooly bison.
Grakma: No Oog. That rock too small. Need bigger rock -like size your head.
Oog: Naw Grakma. Big rock too slow. Need smaller fast rock.
Oog: Me like dis rock for killing wooly bison.
Grakma: No Oog. That rock too small. Need bigger rock -like size your head.
Oog: Naw Grakma. Big rock too slow. Need smaller fast rock.
#36
RE: Lets be honest with powder charges.
ORIGINAL: Semisane
Another Neanderthal conversation:
Oog: Me like dis rock for killing wooly bison.
Grakma: No Oog. That rock too small. Need bigger rock -like size your head.
Oog: Naw Grakma. Big rock too slow. Need smaller fast rock.
Another Neanderthal conversation:
Oog: Me like dis rock for killing wooly bison.
Grakma: No Oog. That rock too small. Need bigger rock -like size your head.
Oog: Naw Grakma. Big rock too slow. Need smaller fast rock.