I’m a round ball guy, I don’t think conicals belong in ML except for those types that were made for conicals after the invention of them.
Few civilian style guns were made for them until after the WBTS.
Ballisticlly even crude conicals outperform ball and some designs even by the last third of the nineteenth century were ‘over the top’ compared to ball.
However, all ml are garbage arms. Slow, no quick follow up.keep your range short. I know guys have gotten two hundred yard quick clean kills, but they did so with ultimate knowledge of their gun and only taking perfect shots. No questionable shots.
This is the key.
Think of ml as archery on steroids. Get close, only take shots you’re sure of, hunt like you will starve if you don’t get the kill, you only have one shot, and nearest resupply is a months hard travel away.
Stay in range, and in range a conical won’t be better then ball.
Yes military got five hundred yard hits with conical. However a wounded enemy is as good as a dead enemy, any hit is a winner, and here beyond a hundred yards a conical shines.
In the deer woods you want a quick clean one shot kill, and that requires only taking solid shots, nothing questionable, and that requires ranges that are effective for ball.
Few civilian style guns were made for them until after the WBTS.
Ballisticlly even crude conicals outperform ball and some designs even by the last third of the nineteenth century were ‘over the top’ compared to ball.
However, all ml are garbage arms. Slow, no quick follow up.keep your range short. I know guys have gotten two hundred yard quick clean kills, but they did so with ultimate knowledge of their gun and only taking perfect shots. No questionable shots.
This is the key.
Think of ml as archery on steroids. Get close, only take shots you’re sure of, hunt like you will starve if you don’t get the kill, you only have one shot, and nearest resupply is a months hard travel away.
Stay in range, and in range a conical won’t be better then ball.
Yes military got five hundred yard hits with conical. However a wounded enemy is as good as a dead enemy, any hit is a winner, and here beyond a hundred yards a conical shines.
In the deer woods you want a quick clean one shot kill, and that requires only taking solid shots, nothing questionable, and that requires ranges that are effective for ball.
