Guns for the hunt

[Bear Mitchell]

For over twenty years I’ve hunted with one muzzle loader a .50 Kentucky long rifle.when I have used it’s never let me down 90gr of ffg a well placed patch and.490 ball out too 100 yards has never let me down good gun. When you patch it lube it good first .

 

[rodwha]

I like your cap!

 

[Bear Mitchell]

Well thank you made it myself and it keeps me warm all hunting season

 

[Bear Mitchell]

I like your cap!

I think I replied to myself earlier but thanks for the compliment on my hat made it myself and it’s for the season

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Nothing wrong with that load...well you know that already. LOL

Let me ask, if you don't actually see the deer "pile up" do you wait 10 or more minutes, after reloading, and creep up on the deer, to give it time to lay down, and just to be sure?

I'm not setting anything up with the question. Just learning from what other flintlockers do when hunting deer.

I use a .54 flinter. 70 grains of 3fg and a patched .530 round ball.

LD

PS: Welcome !

 

[TheOutlawKid]

Mr.Bear Mitchell, welcome to the forum. I too am somewhat new compared to the other tenured members. I hope you enjoy the conversations and please dont hesitate to share your experience and knowledge you have acquired throughout the 20+ years you have been shooting with black powder.

 

[J-Bar]

It has been nearly 20 years since I last took a deer with my TC Hawken .54. Missouri's Alternative Methods Season opens December 28 and lasts 10 days. I will give my percussion rifle some exercise soon!

Mr. Mitchell, if that is your true surname, by any chance do you have ancestors from Virginia or North Carolina? My mother's father was a Mitchell whose family moved from Stuart, VA to Colorado after having differences of opinion with a sheriff over distillation processes. They left a lot of family behind.