Doe taken with .60cal Flintlock

[GMW]

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Harvested this doe the first Saturday of Firearms season here in PA. The rifle is a Christian Springs style in .60cal with a 44" barrel. I cast and shoot a .585 round ball with a .018 pillow ticking patch lubed with bear grease and beeswax. My load is 80grs of Goex 3F. The shot was taken at 65 paces and double lunged pass through.

[RugerFan]

That's a big girl! Should be plenty of good eating. Very nice smoke pole you got there!

[Good Cheer]

Good for you sir.
Hope I can do something like that this weekend (ML season back home).

[waksupi]

Good going!

[Baron von Trollwhack]

Good for you !

BvT

[square butte]

GMW, Nice doe - nice gun. Where did you get your .585 mold? I've got a .60 cal Getz barrel on a similar gun. Have a lyman .589, but really to tight. Thought about jeff tanner, but was hoping to find a .585 with a sprue plate on the mold. Thanks

[home in oz]

Nice hunt!

[hickoryhilldog]

Very nice deer and great looking smoke pole

[Hanshi]

A big deer and a fine flint rifle; it doesn't get any better.

[KCSO]

And with a REAL muzzleloader too!!!!

[northmn]

Always good to see someone get a nice deer in that manner.

DP

[GMW]

GMW, Nice doe - nice gun. Where did you get your .585 mold? I've got a .60 cal Getz barrel on a similar gun. Have a lyman .589, but really to tight. Thought about jeff tanner, but was hoping to find a .585 with a sprue plate on the mold. Thanks, Tom

Tom, you guessed it, Jeff Tanner. I think his molds are great! He sell a cheap pair of wire cutters that are ground down to cut the sprue flat for around three bucks.
My barrel is also a Getz .60 cal.

[GMW]

Thank you all for the kind words!

[451whitworth]

GMW,
don't you know that you can't kill deer with old school rifles, blackpowder, and roundballs? you need plastic stocks, stainless steel, scopes with external turret adjustments, substitute powder, $2 a piece plastic wrapped jacketed bullets, and shotgun primers. what's wrong with you?

[JIMinPHX]

That's doing it the old fashioned way for sure. Nice job.

[missionary5155]

Good morning & Congradulations !
I can say I too enjoy harvesting corncrunchers with flinters. Large round ball is one fine load.

[SamTexas49]

Now thats the classy way to do it !! excellent !