It's a 19th century carbine ammunition. It's slow by today's standards. If you zero it at 100 yards with the 300 gr slug, it's ready dropping by nearly 6" at 150 yds and nearly 14" at 200 yds. It's dropped velocity at 200 yds. to 1240 ft/sec. Maybe for a short range cartridge you want to protect from bears or something as a backup, it's fine. But for other big game beyond 100 yds. it wouldn't be anywhere in the list of ammunition I choose to hunt with. There are so many cartridges that shoot flatter, develop much more speed and force to break through bone and create the shocktobig games'internal organs needed to bring big animals downquick and clearer. Idon't know of a reason to go back to a cartridge developed 125 years ago.