roundball commented:

It does not "plot" well inballistics programs, but the round ball'sability to put down big game right now within 100yds is incredible...noting your reference to a .45cal ball...I shot a siz pointer at 60yds with a .45cal ball...hit/broke a rib going in and flattened to the size of a dime, turned the heart to jelly, and lodged under the hide of the far shoulder, splitting the hide...I squeezed the hide around it and it fell out in my hand...would have easily taken a deer with a double lung shot at 100yds...but the "energy" according to ballistics programs would have been around 200-300 ft/lbs.

Sofrom what I've experienced,the simple round ball is incredibly effective butreally does not fit conventional ballistics thinking...it is of course, not a 300 yard player...it's a 100 yards woods rifle like a .30-30.

Thank you roundball. I agree that the roundball doesn't fit convential ballistics. I was, I guess, hoping that it would fit some alternate, ie, KP. Though it seems that it doesn't.

Happy Hunting, Phil