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[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

My 14 year old grand nephew got 4 (4!!) deer yesterday with the .50 CVA Kodiak he got for Christmas back when he was about 13. He was just sitting there in the stand and about 20 of them came around the side of the mountain. He got 3 straight out and him and his daddy (my nephew) had to go back this morning and look for one. They found it. It had went about 50 yards off into a thicket and it was dead. Shot through and through with both lungs blown all to hell. They said they don't know how it managed to get that far. He was shooting 100 grains of Pyrodex and I don't know what grain ball. Oh, in reference to a post that was on here the other day, he alway's carry's 3 or 4 sabots in his mouth when he's sitting in the stand. I'm proud of that boy....

 

[alemonkey]

That's great. It's good to see kids who know how to hunt and shoot.

 

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Yeah, it is alemonkey. He e-mailed me a picture of them. They were all laying in the back of his daddy's pick up. They're probably mostly been cleaned by now. My sister is probably busy right now slicing and cutting and chopping!

 

[wittzo]

What state was he in?

one of my friends her in Missippi didn't get anything yet, but her son has. With regular rifles.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Four sets of venison! Wow! That's terrific.

 

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Thank you Gary..
Alabama, Wittzo, North Alabama. There wasn't any deer at all around there back when I was growing up. Now they're as thick as fleas on a dog's ass. My sister got one with her Howdah a couple of days ago and the boy's daddy killed one with a Walker just a couple of days before that. Well, the neighbors won't have to worry about meat I reckon....My nephew (his daddy) has a Thompson muzzle loader my sister and brother-in-law bought for him years and years ago. (I think it's a Thompson) It's not an inline. The hammer's on the side. Anyway, he got off into all these 30-06's and trying to collect para-military rifles and just let the muzzle loader rust up and go to hell so to speak. About 2 years ago he dug it out and cleaned it up good and now that's about all he will use except for shooting his Walker now and then. He done a good job on it. He got all the rust off (along with the original bluing and got somebody to re-blue it for him) and so I guess we are turning into a 'blackpowder' family so to speak except none of us actually shoot the Holy Black. My grand nephew there want's me to work with him and teach him about making it and I told him I will when he get's a little older.....

 

[robhof]

That's a great feat, congrats to the shooter. I got my first B/p deer this year with a Thompson Hawkins. 2 days before the end of B/p season and rotten weather coming in, but I've got venison in the freezer.

 

[scrat]

Wow thats excellent

 

[arcticap]

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine let his son in law use his new inline and he ended up killing 3 deer with the single bullet that he fired.
They were all does lined up behind each other and the bullet went clear through 2 of them fatally striking the 3rd yearling doe.
I guess that he didn't have much of a concept about how powerful they are.

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

Is that how you bump fire a black powder rifle....?

Good shooting!

 

[wooly bugger]

Congrats. I just got my first muzzy deer this weekend, but I'm significantly older than him...

One word of warning, I'd be careful carrying bullets in my mouth unless they're copper solids. Lots of old timers got lead poisoning that way.

 

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Finally got an e-mail back from my nephew. It is a Thompson he has. .50 caliber..