Wheel weights vs pure lead

[hanshi]

Let's face it; a squirrel or rabbit head just doesn't present that much resistance to a prb.  Resistance is what will make the soft lead ball expand so I don't see any advantage to using ww to reduce small game damage.  The .32 & .36 are zippy little numbers and velocity is what causes most of the damage.  A cape buffalo will expand a .458 soft point but a whitetail won't. 

I've hit squirrels mid-body with a .32 many times (30 grains 3f) without losing anything edible or causing any great damage.  The head is not eaten (at least not by me!) and there's nothing between the front and rear parts worth saving. 

[Daryl]

I'll find out what the .32 will do to a Columbia Ground Squirrel with body shots next May - THAT should be fun, the funnest 'squirrel' hunting of all, where you can have 100 to 500 shots in a day.  I acknowledge it wouldn't be possible to have much over 150 shots with a muzzleloader, considering the loading and cooling off time required - but fun it will be.  35gr. of 3F is my load.

[northmn]

<sup>Let's face it; a squirrel or rabbit head just doesn't present that much resistance to a prb.  Resistance is what will make the soft lead ball expand so I don't see any advantage to using ww to reduce small game damage.  The .32 & .36 are zippy little numbers and velocity is what causes most of the damage.  A cape buffalo will expand a .458 soft point but a whitetail won't. 

I've hit squirrels mid-body with a .32 many times (30 grains 3f) without losing anything edible or causing any great damage.  The head is not eaten (at least not by me!) and there's nothing between the front and rear parts worth saving.</sup> 

I gather the head is a delicacy in some regions.  My mothers folks from Missouri cooked up the head.  Its  a sacrifice I am willing to make to save the rest of the carcass.  There is also a lot of bone in the head. (No further comment on this)

DP

[Daryl]

I can just about imagine the look on my mother's face if she saw a squirrel head in the soup pot. HA!   

[Dphariss]

Let's face it; a squirrel or rabbit head just doesn't present that much resistance to a prb.  Resistance is what will make the soft lead ball expand so I don't see any advantage to using ww to reduce small game damage.  The .32 & .36 are zippy little numbers and velocity is what causes most of the damage.  A cape buffalo will expand a .458 soft point but a whitetail won't. 

I've hit squirrels mid-body with a .32 many times (30 grains 3f) without losing anything edible or causing any great damage.  The head is not eaten (at least not by me!) and there's nothing between the front and rear parts worth saving. 

When I was a kid I had a 32 percussion, they a 40 percussion, then a 36 flint.
With 30 gr on FFFg any one of them would cut a squirrel near in two with a body shot.
Makes them much harder to skin.

Dan

Dan

[hanshi]

Let's face it; a squirrel or rabbit head just doesn't present that much resistance to a prb.  Resistance is what will make the soft lead ball expand so I don't see any advantage to using ww to reduce small game damage.  The .32 & .36 are zippy little numbers and velocity is what causes most of the damage.  A cape buffalo will expand a .458 soft point but a whitetail won't. 

I've hit squirrels mid-body with a .32 many times (30 grains 3f) without losing anything edible or causing any great damage.  The head is not eaten (at least not by me!) and there's nothing between the front and rear parts worth saving. 

When I was a kid I had a 32 percussion, they a 40 percussion, then a 36 flint.
With 30 gr on FFFg any one of them would cut a squirrel near in two with a body shot.
Makes them much harder to skin.

Dan

Dan

   You SKIN yours afore you cook 'em?! 

[Daryl]

Ummmm - yes.