You got me there. His ability to feed himself and others was generally agreed to be pretty good, but I have no idea what objective standards his contemporaries were using.
My post was an attempt at being facetious about the effective range of a purported replica "musket" vs the longrifle with which Boone is generally associated.
Mr. niteowl77
Ol’ Ticklicker. Kind of implies some marksmanship. It’s not very difficult to get within spittin’ range of game.