happy to see so many muzzleloader hunters

[slickrockpack]

I have always loved muzzleloading.  it was a big part of our lives and I think too, growing up holding a  powder horn and listening to stories about great great so and so's trip with Ashley or his great great's exploits in the such and such war, or holding a ridiculously heavy musket while being told it was the first gun made on this continent by my 7Gs great grandfather who was armourer of the Trained Band and used this gun to protect the Virginia settlement  made me spend much time envisioning the exploits I myself would have with a muzzleloader too when I was old enough.

today I don't shoot them as much as I once did, mainly due to eye issues, but once not so long ago  our shooting was measured in tons of lead shot per year.

There are very few things in this country and others that  I have not shot with a front stuffer, and they added a level of enjoyment to a hunt that otherwise would have simply been a killing.

I am happy to see so much hunting with smokepoles happening on here, they are an addiction, no doubt.

the last year I was back east in spring time I hunted turkeys with my great grand nephew, he did not get a turkey with the flinter but he came close, because of the length of the barrel I had it propped on a stick for him and he couldn't move it to get on the tom that came in,  but  I did shoot one so that I could teach him to make a wingbone call and how to split and sand  the feathers for his arrows, not to mention show him how to get rid of the sponge without tossing his cookies.

I found a photo of the day I took his father to a shooting preserve so he could learn to shoot pointed pheasant with his flintlock, the back of the photo says 17 pheas and 1 woodcock, the hearing plugs and shooting glasses were much appreciated that day and the point driven home to him by the day's end.

the crows were a double, something very tricky to pull off on crows with a fowler, I was a machine that day.

The deer in fallen leaves and ferns is mainly to show how nice it looks when you take a moment to arrange a photo, leaves are added by tossing onto the deer, the fern covers the bloody bullet hole.  Its a fat little one sided spike went 133 on the home scales and was fork tender, the other is a nice rack buck that I usually pass on but was the last day of the last year I would be home hunting, or so I thought, and look at how crappy it looks tossed in a bloody bed of my truck.

woodcock, grouse and ducks are self explanatory I think.

 

[landtracdeerhunter]

 Some nice harvests there with a very nice looking firearm. My muzzleloader is my " go to " firearm. We buy Black Horn by the pound, LOL.

[slickrockpack]

On ‎8‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 5:59 AM, landtracdeerhunter said:

 Some nice harvests there with a very nice looking firearm. My muzzleloader is my " go to " firearm. We buy Black Horn by the pound, LOL.

I prefer Goex  if I can get it, maine powder house is the best place we've used him for decades.  free shipping on 50 pounds.

Though this year he isn't answering his phone  or returning emails, I hope he's off fishing and not closed or something bad happened.

I have many flintlocks and some percussions but that 62 cal fowler built by Ed Rayl is one of my favorites, I'm weeding them out as I go, my view now is if I didn't build it or I  don't use it at least once a month it's going.

Edited August 28, 2016 by slickrockpack