Flintlock Doe on the First day

[petey]

I absolutely love hunting the late muzzlelaoder season. It's a great time to get together with family after the Holidays and put on a few drives. We had 7 guys yesterday and all but one got shooting. It was a crisp 15 degree morning so the ol smokepoles were going off good. I took this MEGA huge doe right around the 100 yard mark with my T/C Renegade shooting 90 grains of 777 and a 240 grain Hornady XTP sabot. I was trying out the new Tripple Seven this year since I was out of my FFF and FF and my dad offered me a can since he bought surplus of the stuff. Shooting it on Christmas eve it seemed to shoot in the same spot, but just from my experience it seems to be a slower burning powder? Not too sure if it's that or just takes a bit more to ignite. I kills them just the same though. I will say it's A LOT cleaner. Run a couple wet rags down and a few dry ones and she's shining. In any case I got a veal for the New Years

[Jabba]

You gotta LOVE them little does Petey.

They die easy.
They gut easy.
They drag easy.
They skin easy.
They bitcher easy.
They eat easy.

Plus... any deer with a flinter is a BONUS.

Jabba

[skeet]

Good grief Petey... That sucker still had milk on it's mouth...Ain't you ashamed of your self. Reminds me of the one my 10 yr old grandson turned down in shotgun season.... at 15 yds!!




Oh well....Just kidding man. anything with a flinter is great...same with a bow!! And Jabba was right...they sure do eat good!

[gd357]

My idea of the perfect season is to get a nice buck, and a young doe. You get the best of both worlds, a mature buck, and the best eating deer in the woods. Looks like Petey did just that. Good shooting!

gd357

[Jabba]

Ya'll might call me crazy... and don't get me wrong... I like how those little ones eat... but the best venison I have ever had was my biggest buck. I swear! Plus he had been shot earlier in the day in the neck... that wound was not near fatal. To further the issue... I spine shot him and had to reload before finishing him off. ALl with a smoke pole. All evidence says that meat should have been strongish and gamey.

It was not. It was wonderful. Weird.

Jabba

[petey]

Naw Skeet,

I'm not ashamed at all...Didn't you hear that PA is overran with deer? We have to kill them all including the one's still on the teet.

Unfortunately, even though I'm being sarcastic, that is the attitude of the people behind our almight PAGC.

[DaMadman]

I walked into a butcher shop this year and there was a sign asking Maryland hunters to please quit killing the 40-60 pound deer and donating them to hunters for the hungry. I was costing them more to get the deer cut up than what the meat was worth.

Personally I like a nice young deer for the freezer.

My way of hunting is, Brown is down. If it is a deer and comes past me whilst I am hunting I am gunna shoot it.

AFTER and only after I have meat in the freezer do I become selective in what I shoot.

Hope that little one was tender as it looked Petey. Good shot, hitting something that little with a flint lock was probably a challenge (just kidding)

Oh and BTW I would much rather shoot the little deer and let the big doe run away than shoot the big doe and have the little one stick around and not leave. Had that happen once and it won't happen again.

I shot the bigger of the two does and the littler of the two turned out to be a yearling and wouldn't leave and kept bleating at me.. The though of that still gives me shivers a little. I vowed then and ther to shoot the little doe the next time, the big ones have enough sense to run away after the first shot goes off