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Oct. 21st was the muzzleload opening in Florida. 35 minutes after shooting time I hastened a shot at a doe only 25 yards away as she crossed a small shooting lane. The shot was a bit too far back and I only got part of one lung, liver and gut. I never found a drop of blood for 85 yards and then...

My internet connection is so slow that I can't load many videos so I didn't watch the video. However, even though modern bullets and sabots are anathema on the forum, I wonder how effective a short, saboted modern bullet would do in the same situation. :dunno:

Due to the lack of expansion and penetration of a .32, I won't deer hunt with anything smaller than a .45. PRBs are not the best game getters with larger game and I need some kind of a blood trail to recover one.

That is indeed a very nice goat. I wish he had grown some long hooks to go with the rest of his rack, Did you measure him? If so, what was the score?

You work? I thought you just hunted for a living. My bubble has burst. 😢

Is that a graylag goose? (I am NOT a goose expert having never shot one. They seldom come to central Florida.)

Nice bear and nice gun. I see 3-5 bears every deer season on my place while hunting but they are protected here. The Game Commission has a majority of anti-hunters on it.

Nice slick doe and a beautiful rifle make your hunt one to remember.

I still have my original Baker with hand climber (hoarder?). I had a smaller one called a Mite-E-Mite with no hand climber. I probably left if in the woods several decades ago. I liked them because they were light and folded flat. Here's me with an early model compound bow and the Baker...

I've used a climbing stand since the 1st Baker stand came out in the '70s. If that thing didn't kill me, I don't think the sturdier and better-built stands that followed would have and they didn't. I used a climber several times last season and plan to use them again this year. When using a...

I like the idea of being able to hunt and shoot even if components are not commercially available. This would necessitate a flintlock, however, I cheat a bit and use more caplocks than flintlocks. If only shooting paper and gongs is going on then flintlocks are fine. But if I'm hunting deer, I...

If I read the above chart correctly, one could legally hunt deer, bear, and elk with a .25 ACP pistol as long as he used hollow-point or soft point bullets. I have found that muzzleloading rules in Florida seem to vary depending on which game warden you encounter. I had to get an email response...

Can you hunt deer with a muzzleloading shotgun and buckshot???

Great composition on that photo. I really like it.

The only reason I can think of to carry a BP revolver over a smokeless powder handgun is that you're a convicted felon who can't legally own a modern firearm.

Even though this is an ancient thread, the info is worthwhile. I have posted this photo before but it is a small buck that I shot in the leg with my .50 cal. Hawken. He hobbled towards me and stopped 40 yards away. I pulled my Ruger Old Army with .457 round balls and shot him through the lungs...

In my .54 New Englander I started with 70 gr. of 2F black powder then 75 gr. and then 80 gr. I settled on 80 because the recoil was getting to be uncomfortable. It shot the best pattern (3 shots) with 75 gr. but I moved up to 80 for shooting a bit longer distance. I used T/C Maxiballs not...

Out of sight!

Beautiful wood and a nice bushbuck or kudu hide too.

"Killed" and "Butcher" for me. Harvest denotes that you raised it either a crop or an animal. Process is non-descriptive. My bank can process a loan application