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I've got a nice, not large, 10 pointer hanging on the wall in my basement

Hunting deer in Iowa is with shotgun slugs.  Makes it much more sporting.  Range is 100 yards or less.

I did some bow hunting back in the day, but range was probably 25-30 yards for me.  Might as well put a knife in my teeth and leap on them if I can get that close.

Same-same in Ohio though some guys use their muzzle loaders during gun season for a long shot - confident they won't miss.But where we use to hunt because of thick wood lots and brush ya may get a 40 yd shot

I have never fire a muzzler, I've seen them fired at exhibitions.

I've read that British troops in the Napoleonic Wars could fire 4 rounds per minute, but the less well trained French conscripts could manage only 3, at best.  Range was about 60 yards.  The Brits would march to within 60 yards and start volley fire with devastating effect.  Few opponents could withstand that.

The French would often move in a solid block so if you killed the front rank they would appear not to have changed, and poorly trained troops would nearly always break.  The British (and many Prussian troops) would stand in line and return fire.  The tactics of that era are fascinating to me, including the "make square" that they could manage in short order.

the tactics seemed ridiculous, but there must have been some level of success

I've hunted small game with a muzzleloader.  Rabbits, squirrels, birds.  Not deer

Flintlock takes some getting used to with the delay

Feel like this needs to he locked at this point to avoid confusion.  Move it to the general OT thread