40-70- 1 deer -0

[Distant Thunder]

Bill,

"I don't want my bullets to go completely flat on impact--I want them to drive all the way through and give an exit wound."

Absolutely agree with that! I just wondering if you got any expansion? I don't think penetration would be a problem with something between 20-1 & 30-1. All my previous hunting has been done with my .50-70 and bullets in the 500 grain range cast at 20-1. I don't believe at 1200 fps I ever got any real amount of expansion, but I don't believe it was necessary either. That combination was deadly for me on deer sized animals out to just shy of 200 yards which my personal limit with iron sights. My .40-65 is scoped and I would have confidence in hitting the mark to that distance even with my old eyes when using the scope. I would like to see the round nose at least blunt up just a bit in a .40 cal. then I believe it would be just as deadly on deer. I will have to do some testing.

My target bullets are 16-1 and that would be too hard for hunting I think. I haven't tested anything softer for accuracy, but I don't see a problem using this round nose design and even 30-1. Over expansion would be bad, but shouldn't be a problem with the alloys we're talking here.

Seeing you got very impressive results I just wanted to know what you were using. Thanks for the reply.