Dave in MY case... I believe your statement is more than accurate. I believe that I am a better than average shooter in most cases with just about any gun I would pick up. But, in the case of PRB, I would have to limit my self to the ranges that you have hinted at. There is not doubt in my mind that I could hit the animal beyond those ranges with a PRB, but in my case I believe I would be cheating what I believe is my ethical responsibility to, geez I even hate to use the workkill so... to harvest an animal as quickly and as humanely possible. Along with that ethical thought goes my belief (and I am not trying to start an argument) that the RB isone of the least efficient projectiles to use forharvesting an animal. Now if it were the 1830's,40's it would be different because that was what was availble and your profeciency would honed over many years. Still in most cases the old mountain men did not even rely on there guns to harvest game... they made to much noise and were expensive to shoot.

My experiance has always to to gravitate to the most efficient projectile for the given weapon and again even the mountain men did that as the PRB was replaced with better projectiles through time and during their time. As the Brown Bess was replaced in the west so were the projectiles. One of the things that I also believe I rely on that speed kills more efficiently. I also believe that velocity creats more of a shock in the animal than just the wound channel and I believe I have seen enough evidence to prove that.

In my limited PRB experiance I believe if you are shooting a PRB or even a lead conical the old saying "make a big hole" probably applies, because with those two projectiles you are probably really relying on the wound channel to do the job. Without the velocity achieved by lighter bullets you are losing some of the benefits collateral damage.

OK... I am starting to rattle so time to send...