Where do you shoot them??

I get a kick out of the problems y'allinline boys haveselectingbullets! I have fired literally hundreds of these here sabots and conicals in my various & sundry muzzleloading rifles. However, when it comes time to go deer hunting, I seem to gravitate toward a caplock or flinter of .50 cal. or bigger, firing a patched round ball.

Realizing that the penetrtion ability of the round ball is limited, I have developed enough self-discipline to NOT shoot a deer until I have a direct shot at its'heart-lung area where the ball is not required to bust through trees, rocks, orheavy bone to get there. I find that when I do this, the ballpasses completely through the critter, and you should see the blood trailS - one on the entry side, one on the exit side!

You want a bullet that will give you a blood trail?? Try a round ball, and put it in the right spot - about halfway up the deer's side, far enough to the rear that it misses the shoulder blade but cuts in front of the liver.

You will have a blood trail! For maybe up to 30 yards or so, after which you will find your deer laying in a pool of whatever blood he had left when he fell!