In hunting with traditional black powder, can you use a Minie ball?
I know round ones are the usual but is it possible that you could if you wanted to? Does anybody have any insight on how accurately they shoot and where you could get some?
Yes you can use a mini-ball for BP hunting. However it won’t be accurate worth a damn if the rifling has the wrong rate of twist. BP rifles designed for round balls have a slow rate of twist like 1 in 48, a conical or mini-ball will not be stabilized unless the rate of twist is at least 1 in 32.
To find the rate of twist of your rifling take a cleaning rod and attach enough cleaning patch so it fits tightly in the bore. Now as you push that patch down the bore the rod will turn with the rifling. If it makes one complete revolution in 16 inches the rate of twist is 1 in 16. Meaning one revolution of the bullet in 16 inches. Some BP rifles designed for saboted conicals have a 1 in 16 or 1 in 18 rate of twist.
If you have a rate of twist to the rifling that’s 1 in 32 or faster you can use mini-balls conicals and saboted bullets.
Saboted bullets can create a faster bullet. Say your rifle is a .50 cal, you can get sabots for it to shoot .45 cal or .44 cal bullets that are lighter. I have used sabots to fire copper jacket hollow point .430 pistol bullets in my .50 cal BP rifle with a fast rifling twist with awesome results. It was more accurate and had much more range.
Hope this helps.
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