Do deer jump the flint Pan?

[Darkhorse]

If you go back to my earlier post I specified a well tuned flintlock. That is indeed a dividing line.
I am sure you called some well qualified individuals. Sometimes one deer makes a person qualified. And far be it for me to argue with the voice of experience.
I agree that a deer may be aware of the flint hitting the pan but before he has time to react he is already a dead deer walking, if you didn't flinch. And as I said before if you flinch then you can blame it on the deer jumping the pan.
Maybe after another 25 years of hunting whitetails with a Muzzleloader have passed I may realize my error and agree with your other sources. But until then the deer I shoot don't seem to care how little I know.
Another thing to consider that sometimes causes the experienced to misjudge their results. If the deer is moving and there is no wind, then you really don't know exactly where your sights were on the animal when the gun went off. All that is covered by smoke. If you don't follow through with the movement of the target you will miss. Again, that could be attributed to a deer jumping the pan.
I think not training ones self in the mental aspects of mastering the flinchlock is a much bigger problem than a deer jumping the pan.

 

If a man says something and there isn't a woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?

Vic

 

[graybeard]

Don't know if a deer can jump the pan with a flintlock, but they sure can shift into high gear at the sound of a hammer being cocked. The Michigan black powder season ended Sunday, and at mid-afternoon I had four deer passing. They didn't seem to notice when I raised the replica Kentucky cap and ball, but when I pulled the hammer back the deer I intended to take shot forward like a jet plane. I shoot behind grouse a lot, but I still find it hard to believe I shot behind a deer. Graybeard

 

[musketman]

quote:Originally posted by graybeard:
Don't know if a deer can jump the pan with a flintlock, but they sure can shift into high gear at the sound of a hammer being cocked. That's because deer have RADAR...

Fortunately for me, my muzzleloader is a ventriloquist, and it can throw the "click" sound over by where my brother is hunting, so the deer run towards me...

I had to pay extra for that feature...