Fur friendly loads with 32/36 RB?

[Ladobe]

Can anyone offer up some fur friendly loads for fox/coyote using 32 and 36 RB's - and what their velocity is?  
Thanks - Ladobe

[Ladobe]

NADA???

And you call yourselves traditional hunters huh?   :wink:

So nobody shoots 32 or 36 caliber AND saves the pelts?

Ladobe

[filmokentucky]

I use 25 grs.of fffg under a .31 ball in my .32 caliber Tennessee style rifle. Ballistically, this is probably the equal of a .22 long rifle out to 75 yards or so. It's a great bunny and squirrel gun, but I don't believe I'd use it on any thing bigger. The ballistic chart at the MLML site shows an ME of just over 200 ft. lbs for this load---not enough in my opinion for a coyote.

[Ramrod]

Hey Ladobe, I think the low response might be because any sane roundball load would be fur friendly in these pipsqueak guns, and nobody can tell you what is going to shoot well in your gun. Alot of centerfire and inline shooters have this mentality, ( the ONE magic bullet or magic load). Not saying YOU do, but it don't work that way with Real powder and roundballs.
Besides, my smallbore rifle is a .45 :wink:

[crow_feather]

Ladobe,

I havta admit that I don't play with balls that are smaller than my fishing weights.  My smallest ball is 54 caliber.  My size preference seems to be going the way of my waist measurement as the years roll on.

But 65 grains of 3f - GO powder is max in my book for a 36 caliber ball and moves out at 2272 fps in a 37" barrel.  The load I think looks good is 50 grains of 3f for 2032 fps.

I have always heard that the smaller calibers are less accurate than say the 44 or 45 caliber rifles.  I have to admit that I have never tried to determine if it is true though.

C F

[Ladobe]

fk - thanks for the info.   The 32 was intended for fox if it can thump hard enough, not for coyotes.

rr - not looking for a magical anything, just if someone had tried the 32 on fox or the 36 on coyote and what load would have enough energy to do so humanely without tearing up a hide.   If anyone has chronographed either and has the FPS, I can figure out what the FPE would be to decide from.   All the BP coyotes I've shot have been with either the 50 or 54, and neither leaves much doubt (or the pelt).

cf - I'll pass making any comments on your playing with small balls  :wink: , but your chrony data helps me a lot, and thanks kindly.   Your 50 gr. 2000 FPS load ran through the calc - range in yards / FPS / FPE - comes out:

   MV/2000/568
   25/1693/407
   50/1424/288
   75/1211/208
   100/1066/161

Sheds knock-down power real fast doesn't it?

A couple of my 45's shoot to beat all dickens, but I'll see what this 36 does in comp (with the extra help from the scope though).    When it comes to RB's, I guess I like all sizes since I have 2 32's, 2 36's, 5 45's, 2 50's and 2 54 traditional's already since just getting back into BP again 6 months ago.