Sabotloader, I never hunted muzzleloader out west yet, so you are much more qualified in that department. I never shot at long range with them. BUT... on paper there is a difference. No argument there. But in the field, if you know the trajectory of your projectile, what's the difference?

Its the same with aroundball. The more of them you shoot at different distances, you understand that since my target is 125 yards out and I am sighted in for 75 yards, I need to aim five inches or what ever, above my POI to make that roundball get out there on target. But the point is, it will get out there, on target, if I do all my stuff right for bullet considerations.

If I know my Nosler hits two two inches high at 100 yards to do the job out there. And my conical must hit three inches high at 100 yards to make the same hit further down range, what is the difference? To me I aim higher with one and not the other. I know my load and adjust for it. I also know that my conical make the minimum of a .5045 hole as it enters and who knows when it leaves through the vital organs, even if it does not expand. The Nosler on the other hand makes a .452 hole on entering and who knows what when it expands. Also the big lead conicals I have shot deer with must have retained their weight as I never recovered one yet out of a deer.All pass through. Both are going to put a big fat hole through the vital organs if I do my job.

As for this idea of shooting at moving game, I would never shoot at a animal flat out. And if the animal was walking.. I really do not see the difference in my POIas a problem.I just think it is a matter of learning your projectile and what it does.