ejpaul1

It really depends on if you are going to use them Traditionally - PRB or if you are going to shoot conicals, Powerbelts, and or maybe sabots. Since you are in CO - I doubt you will be using sabots. But! I really expect you might be using conicals...

My thoughts - if tradition and that is basically all you are going to shoot go 54...

If conicals or sabots with an occasional PRB for deer go 50.... the selection great slip fit conicals for a 50 far exceeds the availablity of 54 conicals...

I have three 54 sidelocks, none of the three would I really give up and I have three 50's - 2 have 1/48 twist one has 1/28 -> these sidelocks are the ones that I use - they are extremly versitile shooting conicals and sabots. I recently have been shooting a 1/48 Renegade with 460 grain slip fit conicals (either Bullshop or NE's) I am amazed at how well those bullets perform from the 50 1/48 twist and believe me they will drop and Elk dead...I am shooting posted clay pigeons @ 100 yards with them - I am amazed how well they perform... they are not flat but they are not that bad...

I would vote 50 for versitility.... but get a good one