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    I suppose that is why the gun club I belong to doesn't allow us to shoot anything but paper targets. Probably a safe approach. There is not a range around here that will allow one to fore a .50 cal. rifle either. Apparently none of them want there berms torn-up. Many years ago I shot a tree with a .45 black powder ball while test firing a Kentucky Pistol kit I had built using a light load and the ball came back over my head. The normal load did not however.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VinnieL View Post
    I suppose that is why the gun club I belong to doesn't allow us to shoot anything but paper targets. Probably a safe approach. There is not a range around here that will allow one to fore a .50 cal. rifle either. Apparently none of them want there berms torn-up. Many years ago I shot a tree with a .45 black powder ball while test firing a Kentucky Pistol kit I had built using a light load and the ball came back over my head. The normal load did not however.
    In the past I've shot hundreds of kilograms lead with black powder long range guns, .58cal., IPSC in 357 mag. and a lot of big cartridges like 45-90, always on paper or IPSC metal targets, and when I look that they were no accident or ricochet but I've never tried to shoot outside of a specialized shooting range, looking at people on youtube videos, they are mostly not in what I'm calling a safe action especially on testing big guns, and they are a lot of incidents related to that use, for me outside of a range controlled by a good specialist they are no place for a safe shooting!

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