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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
BTW does anyone know what type and caliber & rifle is used in the scene? I'm guessing something rather large.
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You might be surprised at just how inadequate their rifles were. They were all round ball shooters, usually somewhere between .45 and .54 caliber. A. 45 round ball weighs about 147 grains, . 50 about 180 grains, and .54 about 230. Round ball rifles generally start their projectiles at about 1,800 -2,000 fps at best. A round ball has the worst ballistic coefficient of any projectile imaginable. At 100 yards they will have already dropped below 900 fps. So, essentially, even at the larger end of the scale, about the same energy at 100 yards as the.45 ACP at the muzzle. Hardly adequate "bear medicine" in anyone's book.