that is some extremely good shooting on your part. Any time some one shoots free hand, and can score like you did, they have reason to be pleased. It sounds like any deer come too close to you is in for a lot of problems. That's a good powerful load your shooting also.

I used a flintlock today and was shooting ball-ets and then switched over to some maxiball. The Thompson Center .50 with 90 grains of Goex 2f shot some excellent groups off the bench rest at 30 yards. After I finally had the Hawkin rifle's flint dulled out completely, I then got out another rifle, a Renegade with a Stainless Steel barrel and 1-28 twist ans shot some 300 grain Speer HP's in .452 and they did excellent with 100 grains of Goex 2f.