Could happen I suppose, but then, the question was rhetorical, (I wasn't looking for an answer).

I was just making the point the 1" roundballis almost 200 times more capable than a .5 cal. Think about it. Increase thediameter by a factor of two, and we have 200 times the weapon. In that sense, relying on the use of roundball for elephant as a justification of weak momentums and velocities for deer isn't all that sound. The 1" RBis so much better than the .5" cal RBfor elephant for all the same reasons a385 grain conical is better than a .50 cal RB is for deer and even for all the same reasons that the .54 cal RB is better than the .45 cal RB for deer.

The .54 cal is not equivalent to the .50 cal and the .50 cal is not equivalent to the .45 cal. We are not "just" discussing roundballs. We are discussing physical objects which have physical properties which extrapolate exponentially with bore size.

Happy Hunting, Phil