Entered the Flintlock fraternity

[Bigpete]

Good stuff mate

 

[PathfinderNC]

Beautiful countryside and day for a hunt as well. What a fun and memorable time for you. Congrats!

 

[nchawkeye]

Congrats!!!

I think the fuse effect comes from the touch hole being too low...It should be high so when you close the frizzen, it is covered by the heel of the frizzen...This way, no powder can get in it...

 

[jackpine54]

Congratulations on a successful hunt! Hunting with a flintlock is habit forming.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Glad you blooded the gun successfully

 

[appalichian hunter]

Now that there is one large rabbit, could be a three-day rabbit, cook and eat for three days. Now go get a big one Shinin times there, Congrats.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Now that there is one large rabbit, could be a three-day rabbit, cook and eat for three days. Good deal shining times there. Now go kill a big one.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Sorry for the double post.

 

[Percy]

Well done! Sure is a big rabbit.

 

[bushytail]

Congratulations! We don’t have any BIG hares in my area. Only cottontail rabbits. If I want to go for hares, I’m told I need to go to northern PA. That one hare will make a nice stew.

 

[Bigpete]

Well done! Sure is a big rabbit.

Its a hare

 

[Euan]

Congrats and well done !!

 

[deerstalkert]

after raising this little Hare i have a tough time shooting one! must be getting old. nevertheless congratulations!

 

[Daveboone]

I heard you say you used 60 of 2F, but what was it pushing? I am thinking shot?

 

[Bigpete]

We have a pet hare....still have no problem killing and eating one....

 

[deerstalkert]

i only see the snowshoes when the cats and wolves are close in.
the hares come in close around the house for protection i guess. that and whatever is left in the garden they didn't get during the summer!
i was all fired up to hunt one like GoodRabbitPilgrim but with my .32 . was eager to make a hat with a white phase. got to thinking of the work tanning it, went out and bought one. really getting old i guess.

 

[Britsmoothy]

I'm not a fan of the meat. I use to collect one for an old gent occasionally whome like to cook them.
He preferred the blue or mountain hare so when I was in Scotland I would get him one.

I'm glad our aussie friend is getting game in with this smokepole. Good on him.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

After doing a few practice shots last week I was keen to take it for a hunt. Managed to sneak into 20 yards of this hare and managed to take my first flintlock kill on my first flintlock outing!

Thanks to all that have given me advice along the way.

One thing of note, when stalking no matter how I held it I noticed that the priming powder migrated toward the flash hole. At the shot there was a bit of a fuse thing going on. Not sure how to remedy that?

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Before taking the shot give a stock a thump with the palm of your hand just next to the lock...that should move the powder away from the flash hole.

Great hunting story...congratulations.

 

[bud in pa]

I'm not a fan of the meat.

I love the cottontail variety, which besides the snowshoe is what we have here in eastern PA.