First Muzzleloader Score

[musketman]

What was your first game animal taken with a muzzleloader?

Mine was a fox squirrel, many, many moons ago...

 

[oneshot]

Same here Fox Squirrel.

oneshot

 

[Stumpkiller]

Gray squirrel.

I think it was at 220 yards, but the memory is kind o' fuzzy.

'Course, they was tougher and taller back in them days. Ya carried a pistol so's ya could kill yourself and avoid the mauling if ya only wounded them with the rifle.

 

[rabjr]

Mine was a white tail deer.

 

[roundball]

First deer with a muzzleloader of any kind was a 6 pointer with a .50cal Knight MK85 inline;
First deer with a .50cal TC Hawken percussion sidelock a couple years later were two does on the same morning;

 

[The Baron]

A barn pigeon. If that doesn't count, then the next was a 20.3 lb tom turkey.

 

[Rebel]

An Oregon Mule deer buck.

 

[doverdog]

That wonderful game animal, the Eastern gray squirrel.

 

[bob1961]

doe with a 40 yd heart shot that still ran 80 yds..............................bob

 

The good 'ol gray sqirrel.....with an 1851, brass framed Navy......I got really lucky!!!

Vic

 

8 pt. buck 45 cal tc hawken. shot through the heart form 25 yds. ( twice ).cover was real heavy and i wasn't sure i hit it the first shot.

 

Ruffed Grouse.- Smithers, B.C. - .58 Hawken .575RB 140gr. 2F C&H - killed him instantly.

 

[Wayne Combs]

Fox squirrel,with a .45 flinter.

 

Whitetail doe, 80 yards looking at me, 90 grains 2fg, Lyman GPH, 335 grain all lead h.p. sabot. Droped like a rock and never twitched. So did the doe! :haha: :haha:

 

[Deadeye]

Mule deer, killed a lot of ground squirrels, jackrabbits and
rockchucks before but they're not really game animals.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Tell that to the Conservation Officer when he peeks in your pouch. :: Small game and upland game still be game.

I've heard the hardest part about hunting mulies is finding a place on the truck to rest your gun so the blast won't scorch the paint. ::

 

[Rebel]

truth about huntin' mulies. Ya don'ts hav ta mess up yer paint if'n ya don't get out of yer truck. Course ya sometimes breaks a winder and ya always fill the cab with smoke, but hey, what's a little broke glass and smoke? :: Seriously though, i usually hunt mulies by spotting them and then stalking or setting next to a well used trail. The last one i took i was setting next to a trail. Shot was about 25 yds. Went right down and didn't get up. Another one i spotted and stalked and then crawled the last 100 yds or so, until i was within 13 yds. I put a Buffalo Ball-ett right through the heart and lungs at that range, and it still ran about 80 yds. Since then i have switched to using only rd. balls, and have found that they do a better job of anchoring deer.

 

[sneakon]

Nice 5 point Elk first time ever hunting. Can't wait for September to come around again.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Sneakon,

I can't help but admire the trouble you go to in lacing a patch on that round ball in your avatar. Seems too purty to shoot.

PS - I is jealous about that elk.

 

[sneakon]

The pre-patched balls are purty, and they save a bit of time getting that second shot off when you need it. Not that I ever have needed a second shot. :haha: Rookie luck. Can't say how jealous I am about all the experience on this forum.