I went out to my honey hole again today with the Crockett. I went in to the hickories and sat til 8. It was dead in there which is hard to believe. They must have the hickories cleaned out. I was amazed.
I went west heading to the thick stuff I did well in the other day. Saw two on the ground. Sat there for awhile. Got two with two shots. I was pretty happy. Swabbed my barrel, reloaded and headed up into the thick stuff. Sat where I had a lot of action Thursday. Got two more with two shots. I can’t believe I’m 4-4. I’m REALLY good at missing squirrel with a muzzleloader.
I moved higher up the ridge and spotted one on the ground. Sat there for awhile. Got another one. 5-5 now. I’m stoked now.
Headed back to the truck and cleaned the squirrels. While cleaning my rifle my ramrod broke. I thought I heard a crack when I had reloaded before. I’m 50 miles from home with no ramrod.
Drove home. Cleaned my rifle and a little later went up in the woods by my place. I was heading for a spot and saw two on a tree. I eased down on the ground and rested on a downed log. Missed!! I really wanted to go 6-6 which is our limit.
Continued on to where I intended to sit. I saw 5 or 6. I had 4 young ones climbing around in a tree behind me. Why are they always behind me?!?
Got turned around and finally got a shot off. Got him.
Ol Jim has never claimed to be a great shot. But today was my best day of shooting ever.
After screwing up my original front sight on my Crockett by trying to install a section of fiber optic on it. A good friend sent me another sight and I managed to get it on that one. Man did that help. I could really see it in the woods.
Here are the obligatory pictures. The picture with the five has three squirrels plus two tails. I forgot to take a picture and remembered after I had two cleaned.
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