What I find most interesting about these older traditional and military rifles is the small powder charge they used. Yet in our modern rifles it seems we're not happy unless we are pounding 100-150 grains of powder down the bore. Now granted the modern are normally shooting sabots. But are we really being more effective with the modern inlinesor just shooting longer distances?
Good point
Cayugad. I think it's a distance thing. We all want a 200 yard slam-bam killer load, even though 90% of us will seldom shoot a deer over 75 yards out. If we were satisfied with a 100 yard gun and load we could all be shooting big lead over 70 grains and the deer would never know the difference. That Zouave is surenice to shootwith 70 grains of powder. It pushes the 278 grain ballaround 1250fps-laughablewhen compared to in-line T7 and Blackhorn loads. But I have no doubt it would do the job nicely out there at 75 to 100 yards.