First pheasants of the season.

[Britsmoothy]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Brit,
Jesse kinda looks like he isn't interested in you getting the glory. You sure he didn't shoot them?
WTG
Larry

 

[PathfinderNC]

Nice hunting!
Those are such very pretty birds.

 

[WALT53]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Nice job Nathan and with the only gun a guy would ever need a NW trade gun .

 

[Brokennock]

don't even know how much powder and shot I used

Powder must have been so fine your couldn't see it

 

[Britsmoothy]

Powder must have been so fine your couldn't see it

It was like dust. I pricked the vent and dropped the powder. The prick was a long thorn. When I seated the thin cards and grease the thorn popped out and I heard half the powder spray out!

The next thorn I clamped with the frizzen!

 

[Dave Marsh]

Nice job. Wish we had pheasants here.

 

[Old Timer 48]

Very nice! I love Jess! Give her a nice treat for me.

 

[LME]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Would you shot Tampon walz how to use a Flintlock? He is to stupid to use a automatic shotgun! I saw him in action! Pun itended! LOL!

 

[SDSmlf]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Love it.

As a kid in upstate NY my buddies and I ‘hunted’ pheasants with whatever we had, slingshots, bows and arrows, then eventually graduated to some type of shotgun. We took our share of birds. I had not seen one in the wild in NYS for years until kicking one up while tracking a deer maybe four years ago. Stomping though the fields and woods of North and South Carolina for the past thirty years I have never flushed or seem one in the wild. Maybe I’m doing something wrong???

Glad you came across some birds and were successful.

 

[ETipp]

I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Congrats, Brit.