11/13/08
8-Pointer right at 50yds
T/C Hawken Flintlock
.62cal rifled GM barrel
100grns Goex 2F
Oxyoke wad
.020” pillow ticking / NL1000
Eddie Mayes .600” cast ball
Not the biggest 8 pointer but I’ve sat in the woods for 5 days and was tired of letting deer walk...it was raining when I left the house but I didn’t even hesitate...grabbed the Flintlock and rain gear and got on stand at 11:30am. I kept the lock area up under my rain jacket like normal and refreshed the prime periodically.
The woods had been dead quiet except for the rain then I heard a muzzleloader way off in the distance...checked my watch and it was 2:30pm...couple minutes later heard another boom off in the distance in a different direction...and not 5 minutes after that heard a 3rd muzzleloader go off in the distance from a different direction. I had no sooner begun thinking the thought that this might be one of those “major activity” time slots when I caught movement through the trees way off on my left and here comes this 8 pointer.
He was on a line that would cross left to right in front of me at about 50 yards. I got ready, set the trigger, slipped off the hammer stall and when he began entering my “front space” I whistled but he came to a stop behind trees...he started walking again, I whistled again, and again he came to a stop behind trees...I had one fairly open alley left and knew I would have to shoot him while he was walking...got the rifle pre-aimed down that alley, he started walking again and as soon as I saw his shoulder enter the alley I touched the set trigger...in spite of all the rain, when I needed the Flintlock to do its thing, ignition was instantaneous and down he went.
Bucks have definitely started cruising for does here...saw one small buck chasing a doe about 1:00pm, shot this one at 2:30, and saw two more bucks before dark...all from a natural blind with only 60 yards visibility in any direction, in an Oak flat adjacent to a huge re-growth clear-cut area. One of the other bucks was smaller than this, and the other one was huge...a real shooter...may have been a 10-12 pointer but light was so bad I couldn’t tell..had huge long, wide main beams that curved way out around in front of his head more obvious than any buck I've ever seen.
Anyway, today was a real Flintlock milestone...I’ve been caught out in showers while hunting with a Flintlock before, but this was the first time I actually left the house with a Flintlock in complete confidence, knowing it was already raining and would continue to be raining all day, and the Flintlock worked perfectly when I called on it.
8-Pointer right at 50yds
T/C Hawken Flintlock
.62cal rifled GM barrel
100grns Goex 2F
Oxyoke wad
.020” pillow ticking / NL1000
Eddie Mayes .600” cast ball
Not the biggest 8 pointer but I’ve sat in the woods for 5 days and was tired of letting deer walk...it was raining when I left the house but I didn’t even hesitate...grabbed the Flintlock and rain gear and got on stand at 11:30am. I kept the lock area up under my rain jacket like normal and refreshed the prime periodically.
The woods had been dead quiet except for the rain then I heard a muzzleloader way off in the distance...checked my watch and it was 2:30pm...couple minutes later heard another boom off in the distance in a different direction...and not 5 minutes after that heard a 3rd muzzleloader go off in the distance from a different direction. I had no sooner begun thinking the thought that this might be one of those “major activity” time slots when I caught movement through the trees way off on my left and here comes this 8 pointer.
He was on a line that would cross left to right in front of me at about 50 yards. I got ready, set the trigger, slipped off the hammer stall and when he began entering my “front space” I whistled but he came to a stop behind trees...he started walking again, I whistled again, and again he came to a stop behind trees...I had one fairly open alley left and knew I would have to shoot him while he was walking...got the rifle pre-aimed down that alley, he started walking again and as soon as I saw his shoulder enter the alley I touched the set trigger...in spite of all the rain, when I needed the Flintlock to do its thing, ignition was instantaneous and down he went.
Bucks have definitely started cruising for does here...saw one small buck chasing a doe about 1:00pm, shot this one at 2:30, and saw two more bucks before dark...all from a natural blind with only 60 yards visibility in any direction, in an Oak flat adjacent to a huge re-growth clear-cut area. One of the other bucks was smaller than this, and the other one was huge...a real shooter...may have been a 10-12 pointer but light was so bad I couldn’t tell..had huge long, wide main beams that curved way out around in front of his head more obvious than any buck I've ever seen.
Anyway, today was a real Flintlock milestone...I’ve been caught out in showers while hunting with a Flintlock before, but this was the first time I actually left the house with a Flintlock in complete confidence, knowing it was already raining and would continue to be raining all day, and the Flintlock worked perfectly when I called on it.
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