When my eyesight was good, I used to shoot carpet tacks at 50 feet with the 50 cal.
I would take a paper plate, put a carpet tack in the middle, draw a cross hair on the plate with the tack in the middle, and tack it to a tree.
That 58 cal could almost go through a 1/4 inch steel plate. It made just a huge huge dent, where the 50 would just splatter off to the sides. I could also hit a paper plate at 100 yards with that gun. For a open sights muzzle loader shooting authentic conical bullets, that’s not too bad. A guy from a mile down the road came by once when I was shooting, I never saw him before. He said it was so loud he swore someone was shooting a cannon. When I showed him the gun, he said, yep, it’s a cannon.
50 cal. Is My limit,,
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