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You are right about that! A letter from a buffalo camp in the 1870's said that when the big Sharps guns hit a buff at 800 yds, it was NOT at all uncommon for the bullet to go completely through one buff and kill another. Those big slugs just do NOT want to stop. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />