Just out of curiosity, I have been working up a design for a .32 and .36 caliber conical bullet for the purpose of having a custom mold made and to be used as a longer range coyote and raccoon black powder rifle than the current round ball loads I am using, and while crunching numbers and doing a little math, I have come to around 1470 foot ponds of energy if the bullet can be driven to 1800 feet per second, at 1500 feet per second the bullet would still be rolling along with around 1100 foot pounds of energy, and at 1200 feet per second the bullet would still have around 700 foot pounds of energy. While these numbers aren't particulary impressive while working up a load for deer, it does have better ballistics than a .357 magnum lever action rifle that I do typically hunt deer with. I don't plan on using this loading as anything more than a coyote and raccoon sized game loading but I'm just curious as to what everyone thinks about a Keith style bullet out of a smaller caliber black powder rifle and the bullet being 200 grains and at a velocity of 1800 feet per second being used on deer? To me it sounds acceptable but I know there are probably quite a few people who think anything smaller than a fifty is unethical. Just would like some input on my idea, thanks.