Maybe because the patched roundball was the real first projectile that I ever used, and for many years, when I started shooting muzzleloader, is a reason I like them. When I started there were patched roundball, and minnie ball, and maxiball. Other then that you were pretty much on your own.

I hunted for years with roundball out of a .54 caliber Renegade and never had a problem taking deer. In fact when Knight came out with their MK 85 and an article talked about shooting pistol bullets out of it with plastic sleeves... my friends and I laughed our heads off. We just could not see why someone would give up the extra diameter in the bullet (we all shot .54 or bigger) to go from a .530 to something like a .451... why that was ridiculous in our eyes. But us old dogs learned that the pistol bullet really did work and work well.

Ballistics are not kind to a PRB. But evidence in the field is. But some of the muzzleloading experts love to post numbers and figures of the roundball to prove they don't work or at least in theory should not work. The thing to remember with a PRB is they are not what I consider a long range projectile. 100 yards, maybe a hair more is about it IMO. And even then I much prefer them 75 and under. But you place that small piece of lead in the right spot, it does some amazing things.