Fianally a hog at night with my TC white mountain carbine 54

[Howie1968]

First and foremost thank you all who have helped me get back into traditional muzzleloading. its bee35 years since I hunted with a muzzleloader ive been bow only all these years. I'm very happy with this hog I stot the eating size sow in the dark under night time hog hunting lights that were red. shot distance 12 yards from ground blind to where I shot her. hunting out of a groundblind at night
was tough I could see the hogs but not my sights. I used a red led head mounted light to be able to see my sights. the group of 20 came in I squeezed the trigger and down she went. I was using a hornady great plains 425 gr with 80 grains of pyrodex select 2F with a oxyoke wonder wad.
Earlier in the day I checked game cameras and sure enough they were coming in. at 435pm a big boar came in got him lined up squezzed the trigger and s light pop. dang it I was such a rush I forgot to fire a couple caps to rid the barrel of oil. luckily I had a c02 ball charger with me I discharged the bullet swabbed the barrel and reloaded and hour later another group came in. this time I made it count drt took 1 step and toppled over

 

[Wes/Tex]

Excellent! Porks chops at your house for Sunday supper! :wink: :haha: :hatsoff:

 

[robinsroost]

Congratulations, well done. :bow: Sounds like you have it together. Pretty awesome fire from the barrel at night. I like to keep one eye closed so that the flash dosen't blind me. Keep yer powder dry........robin

 

[James Stella]

Good Job. That would be a rush hunting them at night.

 

[Spikebuck]

Congrats! :thumbsup:

I looked at the larger picture on your photo website but was kind of distracted by "The most beautiful Ukrainian women" they were advertising!!! :wink: :grin: :haha:

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Good looking hog. The other pictures are .... :wink: Dan.

 

[Boomerang]

Way to go! :thumbsup:

 

[Howie1968]

Hunting them at night is a total blast, the hardest problem is being able to see your open sights, ive got that figured out now. I used that site to upload to the forumn because photobucket not sure what happened there. there will be more to come. hoping they start coming in the daylight so maybe I can good footage. the next time I'm gonna use my lyman deerstalker in 54 with patched roundball

 

[hanshi]

You did good on that hog, Howie. I've never liked night hunting - lazy - and much prefer early morning to all other times.

 

[Howie1968]

thank you sir not the biggest but my first critter after 30 years from traditional muzzleloading. I'm still irritated on my rookie mistake had a big boar 15 yards didn't swab my bore before hunting nor did I fire a couple caps prior to hunting to blow any oil out squeeze trigger a slight pop nothing waited 5 minutes had a co2 ball discharger blue the great plains bullet out run a patch down the bore an hour later I turned on my night hunting lights on another group of hogs came in boom down she went

 

[BillinOregon]

That smaller sow will likely be much friendlier on the table than the big boar you had a misfire on.

:wink:

 

[hanshi]

And I whole-heartedly agree. :thumbsup:

 

[Howie1968]

yes sir, I quartered her up got her smoking

 

[Dragonheart]

Congratulations on the Hog!

 

[RUDY MR]

Nice hog :surrender: :surrender: