Big Woods Treks...

[Adam Helmer]

It is a mild February here in northcentral PA, so old dog and I took a trek. I got the .50 smoothbore flinter off the rack, put in 75 grains of 2F Goex, same powder measure amount of #6 shot and primed the pan.

Halfway up the hill out back we had a crow fly over at low altitude. He/she is my 5th flintlock shotgun crow. Old dog retrieved the crow which I promptly burried under the leaves. We reloaded and trekked on. We saw no other critters on our 3 mile trek in the Big Woods.

Lori is ready for the trek tomorrow. I will take a percussion 12 gauge single barrel on a T/C Hawken platform in case we see prokys on Upper Field. The woods are silent in Winter. We did see three does and they still call this old farm their home.

Adam