Funny thing. When you hit a crow with a 45-110 and a 535 grain paper patched bullet, it doesn't blow them up. It punches a hole through them, and maybe knocks out a couple of feathers. Same thing with a 40-70 Sharps Straight or a 40-65. Kills them graveyard dead if you hit them at the butt of the wings, but hit them a little far back, and they will get up and fly off--and then fall out of the air.
Interesting, I hit a coyote pup at 200 yards with my 44-77 Sharps and 477gr paper patch bullet, as the smoke left my right side vision I saw him reach the top of his trajectory and tumble end over end back to the ground, funny things these cool Buffalo Rifles!
