What is the biggest deer anyone has shot with a roundball and what caliber. I have never shot a big buck but did shhot a big, fat doe last year. 50 caliber PRB in chest and ran 40-50 yards or so. Amheading out with jezabel after the storm passes. We had a tornado touchdown last night :cry: will that effect the deer hunting
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You might have to take a goose blind and shotgun approach.
About 5 years ago I shot a doe that went about 205 pounds live weight with a 490 cal. RB. I hit her head-on just to the left of the breastbone. She ran about 60 yards or so into an unpicked cornfield. I had to drag her out without field dressing her because I didn't want the farmer to drag up the gutpile with the cornpicker a few days later.
Anyway, that's my biggest deer, ML or otherwise.
Anyway, that's my biggest deer, ML or otherwise.
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Biggest "deer" I've shot with muzzleloaders and roundballs, weighed on tha average of 900-1000 lbs. and stood nearly 7 ft. tall at tha shoulders. :: :redthumb:
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P.S.,.... favorite caliburs fer such critters were, .58 and .62!! (but .54's also work fine)
YMHS rollingb
P.S.,.... favorite caliburs fer such critters were, .58 and .62!! (but .54's also work fine)
I shot a big eight pointer with a .54 caliber roundball six years ago. He was out about 60 yards standing broadside and never knew what hit him. After we field dressed him he still tipped the scales at 187 pounds. That's not huge mind you but it is a dandy. My friend that year shot a huge nine pointer, that after field dressed went 234 pounds. That thing about killed us getting it out of the woods.
I've been up here hunting Northern Wisconsin this year trying to fill some T-zone tags. Last night I had a perfect six pointer come in... stood broadside at 40 yards from me. He had at least a 16 inch spread and 10" or better on the brow tines. Before he came out from behind the balsum trees, I had the .58 caliber up and ready. I could not shoot but he was sure pretty to look at for the next 20 minutes as he grazed in the field. I also saw a nice little four pointer, but no does.....
That was an impressive storm last night for sure. The thunder and lighting was really something. I do not think anything touched down around here, but everything was sure wet this morning when I went out.... The cedar marsh had a good 6 inches of standing water in it in places... The little creek must have flooded some. Was kind of hard to sneak around in it, but never saw anything this morning.
time to head out again.... hope you have some luck. That storm might actually stir them around some so keep your eyes open.
I've been up here hunting Northern Wisconsin this year trying to fill some T-zone tags. Last night I had a perfect six pointer come in... stood broadside at 40 yards from me. He had at least a 16 inch spread and 10" or better on the brow tines. Before he came out from behind the balsum trees, I had the .58 caliber up and ready. I could not shoot but he was sure pretty to look at for the next 20 minutes as he grazed in the field. I also saw a nice little four pointer, but no does.....
That was an impressive storm last night for sure. The thunder and lighting was really something. I do not think anything touched down around here, but everything was sure wet this morning when I went out.... The cedar marsh had a good 6 inches of standing water in it in places... The little creek must have flooded some. Was kind of hard to sneak around in it, but never saw anything this morning.
time to head out again.... hope you have some luck. That storm might actually stir them around some so keep your eyes open.
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Leadball, I am new to the forum, but wanted to share my pic from this year. I lucked into this deer this year with my flintlock:
I missed him early with a bow, but couldn't miss the 10yard shot with the .50cal!
Good luck
I missed him early with a bow, but couldn't miss the 10yard shot with the .50cal!
Good luck
Jerusalem! That's a mighty fine deer!
No wonder the old ones fought tooth-n-nail for Kentucky.
I put an arrow over the back of a buck that nice from 20 yards with a longbow. He turned AWAY from he to look where the arrow "klunked" a rock, then trotted off before I could nock another. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
I must have brain-f*rted and short drew, because I watched that arrow pass just inches over his back like a thrown ping-pong-ball . . . slow motion. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
No wonder the old ones fought tooth-n-nail for Kentucky.
I put an arrow over the back of a buck that nice from 20 yards with a longbow. He turned AWAY from he to look where the arrow "klunked" a rock, then trotted off before I could nock another. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
I must have brain-f*rted and short drew, because I watched that arrow pass just inches over his back like a thrown ping-pong-ball . . . slow motion. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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"the old ones fought tooth and nail": "The Frontiersman" is one of my favorite books...
I have permission to hunt a place in Ky, where Boone and Simon Kenton spent the winter one year....at least that is how the story goes. He said there are some old foundations and such on his place from that timeframe...
I think it will be cool to slip through the cedars and drift back in time....
I have permission to hunt a place in Ky, where Boone and Simon Kenton spent the winter one year....at least that is how the story goes. He said there are some old foundations and such on his place from that timeframe...
I think it will be cool to slip through the cedars and drift back in time....
I once shot a doe with a 12gg RB that dressed out almost 200 pounds. Alas, I sinned and it wasn't doe day!! She was so big I thought her big body HAD to be her huge consort! Looked like an acre of deer hide showing through the brush so... Only when a friend commented, "Did you weigh that doe. She looks like a record!" did I hoist her to scales. Alas, even decades ago, poached deer were inelgible for records.
Leadball, I am new to the forum, but wanted to share my pic from this year. I lucked into this deer this year with my flintlock:
I missed him early with a bow, but couldn't miss the 10yard shot with the .50cal!
Good luck
Nice Buck Ky, congrats!
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Nice buck there! I like the white patches on his side too.
Congrats.
Congrats.
In 1993 I shot an 11 Point Buck, field dresses at 205 with a .45 Hawk, shooting 440 PRB. Budk came at a full run beside my tree stand, snap shot at about 10 yards, dropped and slide like he was going into home plate. Had to drag him 150 yards to my "car" (VW Rabbit) and load him in the back seat ha.
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Thumped a nice 8 point under foggy, rainy conditions last year with a borrowed 12 gauge smoothbore flinter at about 15 yards.
He may have been dumb, but he was tasty!!!
He may have been dumb, but he was tasty!!!
I shot an awful nice 11 point Whitetail buck in the late 70's with a Traditions Hawken Hunter .54 caliber round ball... 85 grains of FFg at 40 yards. After all these seasons I realize just how lucky I was that day for I have seen few to match him since.
leadball,
some years back (late 70 or early 80s-----memory
ain't the first thing that goes but it does go :crackup: :crackup
i harvested a 10 point that after field dressing weighed in at 197lbs. biggest i've seen up to that point or since. took him with a .45PRB that if i remember was with 75grns 3fff at about 65yds. the only reason i remember the exact weight is i still have a copy of the butcher"s bill after all this time.
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some years back (late 70 or early 80s-----memory
ain't the first thing that goes but it does go :crackup: :crackup
i harvested a 10 point that after field dressing weighed in at 197lbs. biggest i've seen up to that point or since. took him with a .45PRB that if i remember was with 75grns 3fff at about 65yds. the only reason i remember the exact weight is i still have a copy of the butcher"s bill after all this time.snake-eyes
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Biggest deer (ungulate) I shot with a round ball was a bull, approximately 900/1,000 lbs. He weighed 675 in quarters, so he'd be an easy 950lbs. with hide, lower legs and head & guts. I used the .69 on him. RB's work well. Oh yeah - he taggered when hit, but then walked about 20 yards before piling up.
