Bullet for whitetail

[follow maggie]

I drew a rifle tag for doe this year, and I’m thinking about bringing out the .50 caliber muzzleloader after many years of not using it. The smallest bullet I can get locally is 245 grains. Is this too much bullet fir a whitetail?  I’ve looked around here but I didn’t find anything talking about bullet size.

Thanks for any help.

Grant

[Alan K]

No such thing as too much IMO. 

[Dan-o]

I'd say if it's accurate out of your muzzleloader, you are good to go.

[elkboy]

With a muzzleloader,  it's hard to shoot too much bullet weight. In our camp, we've taken them with bullets from 220 to 425 grains. I've personally taken 15+ whitetails with the 300 grain Knight Bloodlines, and they've never caused what I consider to be excessive meat loss or bloodshot.

[callturner]

I shoot a 300 gr Deep Curl Speer on a regular basis for everything.

[follow maggie]

Great. Thanks everyone for the input.

[HntnFsh]

I shoot a 300 gr Deep Curl Speer on a regular basis for everything.

Would you mind sharing your load for those and what you shoot them out of. I have a couple boxes of them I've wanted to try out of my Knight Bighorn.

[Sneaky]

Shot a whitetail buck at 10yds with a 270gr federal BOR lock last year, perfect double lung shot deer still went 80 yards. no such thing as too much bullet if you can shoot it accurately.

[OutHouse]

Back in 16 I got a whitetail buck very close shot with a 405 grain pure led bullet. No excessive damage at all.