Round ball bliss.......

[trails4u]

Well, after a 2-week, unproductive, 85 degree mosquito infested bow season....muzzleloader opened today. Yeah....it was still 80 degrees when I went to the woods this evening, still gnats, still mosquitos, still sweaty and uncomfortable. BUT.....as my well-trained neighborhood deer do, they walked onto the power line right on schedule....20 minutes before dark. In the freezer goes a very nice 100lb. doe.

Cloth patched, spit lubed .495 rd ball, broadside double-lunger at 70 yds with the old-school powder dumping, ball stuffing, iron sited, smoke-spitting real muzzle-loading son of a gun.

Today....a good day. :)

[marshall623]

Good shootn , that is how it is done

[trails4u]

I could kill 1,000 deer with a modern scoped rifle.....and it wouldn't compare to one with the old front stuffer. Yeah...I shoot a cap lock, but not by choice. It just happens to be what I inherited from my old scoutmaster many, many moons ago. I WILL build a flintlock...one of these days!!

You couldn't smack the smile off my face right now!! :)

[triggerhappy243]

Ya-hoooo-mountain dew!

[flyingmonkey35]

Very nice.

That's what they meant when they created the blackpowder hunt.

[waksupi]

As it should be, congratulations!

[GoodOlBoy]

man o man. That doe will taste better than any of the others too!

GoodOlBoy

[Djones]

Great job! Hopefully after the first frost the bugs will go away!

[44man]

Bugs and walnuts. Been picking up nuts for weeks and one tree is still full. GNATS up the ying-yang too. Can't cut or vacuum leaves with all the nuts.
Nothing worse then gnats and skeeters when on stand.
I love a RB gun and used a flinter most. friends bring those inlines and I grew to hate them. Friend shot one sabot load and had to run the ramrod into a tree to load the second one. I out shoot him to 200 meters with a RB. Open sights to his scope.
They will never improve on a good RB gun.