3 to 4 inches is dead game year in and year out, when I went to the builders place to pick up my newly built J&S style 58 cal Hawken rifle, the builder had two red clay birds sitting on a hillside, on 50 the other 75 yards away, he told me the load the rifle had the sights filed for and handed me his bag, I loaded my new rifle with 140 gr FFG blackpowder and a .570" patched round ball.
I set the rifle in my hand and rested it on a bag, with the rear of the rifle shouldered I shot and busted the 50 yard bird, reloaded the rifle and did the same with the 75 yard bird, paid the man for the rifle, went home the next day, reloaded the rifle and hit three for three of my own orange clay birds at a full 100 yards, the sights are filed in a way that you put the target right on top of the front sight, that things deadly accurate to 125 yards with worry of holdover.
OUTFUGGINSTANDING!!
