sabinajiles,

We are gonna have to come to an understanding. I am as passionate about roundballs not being a choice for me as you are about bullying me into recanting my position. Just give up on it. I have a right to my opinion and I have a right to speak factually.

sabinajiles wrote:

However, you then replied that your intent was not to suggest that roundballs weren't a choice for anyone but just for you and you would never suggest they were ineffective projectilesfor harvesting deer. Yet, you have now followed with several more posts where you do just that.

Again I have never said roundballs were inneffective. I did say that roundballs are inferior to the other choices. I stand by that. I followed with several more posts which included statementsthat pointed out just how roundballs are inferior to other projectiles in the physical attributes the indicatea projectiles capabability for killing game. Fact is, the roundball finishes last in all these attributes. I know this to be true and I wont recant that it is true.

Sabinajiles goes on to say.

In over 30 years of deer hunting, I have never lost a deer I have shot with a roundball and I have taken more than a few. I have never had a deer shot with a roundball go more than 75 yds, with themajority of them going down much sooner and many dropping in their tracks. This doesn't make me a super hunter or a super lucky one. It means I understand the limitations of my equipment, and my abilities, and keep within them.

Every projectile has limitations and, IMO, it is pointless to argue about them. None ofthe charts, measurementsand anecdotalevidence mean squat to the guy out hunting, using what works for him. I assume that each of us use what we do because we understand the limitations of our equipment, and ourselves, and are willing to stay within them. To do otherwise is not only unwise, it is unethical.

Look sabinajiles, I'm not going question any thing you said here. I am going to point out something. There is nothing in your statement which gives anyone any idea what the proper use a roundball is. What its limititations are. Its like you are giving a lesson in ethics without giving the ethics.

Having30 years of experience with the roundball, one would think that you could offer some guidelines on range, shot placement, and so on describing the limitations one must hunt with in orderto hunt ethically with a roundball. I would think they would have at least some scientific basis in fact instead being anecdotally supported.

I think if you did that. Youmay find I supported those guidelines and agree thatthis use of theroundball isethical and effective.

Happy Hunting, Phil