First thing's first, make sure that you have permission from the owner of the woods (if it's not your family) before you hunt. That's probably why the land owners around there have such a fondness of TH'ers. My club has to deal with that here in our area (Seige of Port Hudson, Battle of Baton Rouge, Scirmish at Donaldsonville, Battle for New Orleans) and it is very hard to get to a good spot. Of course, that's the case at all places now. Boy, I wish I could have been around when this first became popular before rogues tainted the land owner's perception of Th'ers. To answer your question, Civil War bullets, for the most part, are fairly low velocity and heavy grained (normally measured in oz.) bullets. If they do not strike an object, I would assume (terrible word, but I'm not a physisist) that they could travel quite a distance, but not as far as high velocity, lighter rounds that we have today. Given that the shot was fired level, I wouldn't believe that the velocity rate and weight of the bullet would allow it to travel more than 300 yds. Hopefully, Chuck and Gary can correct anything wrong with my response.