Double, thanks for the info. Yeah the old flat point soft lead bullet was lethal for its size and velocity; back before we had game laws people regularly killed deer with it, especially back in the Great Depression when nobody could afford real "deer rifle" ammo. My wife's family had an old Remington 12CS that had done every duty that a ranch rifle is called upon to do--snakes, coyotes, cottontails, deer, steers, and "things that go bump in the night."
I've found that in general soft, flat pointed (really "flat-ended" would be more accurate) bullets at modest velocities kill game very well without all the fuss of high velocity, expanding jacketed bullets. I've killed a lot of large woodchucks with .32 S&W Long wadcutters and .38 Spl. wadcutters. Also had a student in the machinist course at my former employer (a community college) make me a mould for a .25-20 bullet that is as near to a wadcutter as I could design (it has a "maximum meplat" like the old LBT pistol bullets). Beer can-shaped bullets are very deadly at close range; just don't hold velocity very well. Accurate, too. They make a nasty "whop" sound when they hit.
My old Stevens 44 is very accurate with the new .22WRF ammo. It might be even a tad more accurate except that when I had it relined I could find no one who had a .22WRF reamer, so had it chambered to .22WRM--a little "freebore" .... Never fired a .22WRM in it yet, tho. Got plenty of guns actually MADE for that ctg..
