I agree, roundballs do work.
 

However this is factually a canned/high fence hunt. Michigan has very few hogs running loose and those that are, have escaped from these ranches. Actually the Michigan DNR would love to completely shut these places down and may do so yet.

They have worked well for centuries. One just has to be aware of their limitations in range, and with some, their penetration. Once you start getting into the big boy .58's with a bit of hardness in the lead mix you can but the hammer down on just about anything walking this planet. I've put some pretty big hogs and black bear down quite easily with roundball but I switched to Maxi balls a few years back for better accuracy and a bit more range.

Lets pop a few caps off while in the blind you are hunting from and hope it doesn't scare anything off LOL! Since it's a high fenced/canned hunt it doesn't matter, where are they gonna go?

Always new the PRB was a killer. And our ancestors knew it too!!!

Yep.Leave the sabot garbage for the inline crowd.

Sabot garbage flies further and more accurately than patched garbage.

I use both. Even having thoughts about about buying a new T/C Impact and converting the barrel to 1:66 twist. But I suspect I'll completely burn-up my patches using my Federal 209A primers.

Don't know where you heard that...

Washington had 1 inch diameter rifles made to fire on ships, from all accounts, they were pretty effective...

Just have to match the ball to the purpose... ;)

I would assume he heard it from the same place anyone with a little sense heard it. Anything streamlined will fly more accurately and retain more energy, given equal mass of both objects, than a round ball. Basic aerodynamics that most anyone that has a high school diploma should know.

Yep, patched round balls work very well. Snuck up on the big sow and put a round ball in her ear.





Buck with a patched round ball:





Doe with a patched round ball:

Falcon, is that a boat trailer crank on that rig? I'm asking because I'm going to build something similar to that rig for when I hunt elsewhere. May swing hinge it to load elk into the truck. I'm a big strong guy but many years of football is catching up to my short 51 years of life. Hauling an elk into the bed of my truck is getting a bit on the rough side. Shoot, slapping a little 160 pound doe up into the bed about made my back scream for mercy.

Yes it is. It has 1/4" cable on the winch.

These winches work great. My club has been using them on our skinning shed for years.

Pete (Muley) posted on another messageboard that in Colorado, new regulations say the roundball must be 50-cal for deer and 54-cal for elk.

Indeed, patched balls work beautifully! That hog video was made by hawgslayer, he did a great job with his first ever video. I forget how much brats and sausage he got off that one.

Round balls sure knockem stiff!

PRB...
logically, they'll not that aerodynamic and loose energy quickly, too much spin and they veer off (that's why ball shooter have sloooow twist rifling)...my GPR is 1:60-66

But DAH-HAM they are fun to shoot, easy to cast and so dang traditional that when I'm out I can imagine what it must of been like 'back in the day'.

Problem now is CA lead laws have pretty much made PRB's wall hangers, range toys and black-powder club meet/rendezvous shooters...

Gaaawd I want out of CA...

Who says your balls have to be lead??? ;)

There is a tin/bismuth alternative I found on rotometal and amazon, Tombob makes non-lead RB but are expensive.

for violating CA ban I found this on the Bill/law write up on the legislature page:

"...A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500). A second or subsequent offense shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more than five thousand dollars ($5,000)..."