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I was shooting my .62 caliber smoothbore Renegade which has a Green Mountain Barrel on it. I wanted to see what kind of penetration I could get with shooting 80 grains of Goex 2f an over the powder card, then an unpatched .600 324 grain roundball and finally an over the shot card to hold it all together. I had the range station set at 30 yards. The log you see in the above picture was penetrated end to end by the roundball at 30 yards. The log is a dried out chunk of Balsum tree. Yet I was impressed it could pass through that much wood. An unfired roundball is next to the short starter and a roundball that I recovered after it went through the wood block and then hit the steel backstop in the bullet trap is next. Pretty good power still on that ball to give it that kind of expansion.
This shows the actual target I was shooting at. The top far right hit was made at 100 yards off a set of shooting sticks shooting for the center of the gray area. The next hit high and right was off the sticks but I had moved up to the 50 yard station. Again, not all that bad, about four inches out of where I was aiming. The last group was done at the 30 yard station off the bench.
A little more work and some sight adjustment and I think I will be ready for the doe season. I am determined to take a doe with my smoothbore.