Late Season Buck

[Leon/Iowa]

The late muzzle loader season opened last Monday the 20th, and I got lucky. Saw a lot of does and four bucks. Missed a doe about a half hour after opening. Then about an hour later this guy came along. I call him my "Iowa Longhorn". Leon

 

[TLanoy]

Congrats on the buck and some unique looking horns! :thumbsup:

 

[Patocazador]

That left antler looks just like a longhorn. Congrats. :thumbsup:

Tell us about your gun.

 

[MDK_WV]

:hatsoff: Congratulations! Tell us about your load that brought about his demise.

 

[wattlebuster]

Congrats an that longhorn ought to taste real good :thumbsup:

 

[agill]

Congratulations! :hatsoff:

 

[ncmtmike]

Kudo's on the Flintlock buck! :wink:

 

[Carl Fowler III]

Nice deer...would've been cool if both antlers were that way...congrats on a late season buck...you earn em this time of year! :v

 

[roundball]

Good deal...and those are some pretty hefty mains for a cow horn
:thumbsup:

 

[Tracy A. Potter]

Congrats! Cool buck and gun.

Tracy

 

[Leon/Iowa]

The gun I built about five years ago, with interchangeable barrels. Mark DeHass made the 58 rifled, and 62 smoothbore barrels. It has an L&R lock and triggers. The wood I got off ebay. With the two barrels I can hunt anything from rabbits to Moose. I have taken several turkey with the 62 smoothbore. The load for the deer was 80 gr. of 3F, .023 patch greased with olive oil, and a .570 RB. Leon

 

[silly goose]

Late season deer are well earned, very good.

 

[Spikebuck]

Good deal! Late season bucks are definitely earned! :hatsoff:

Years ago when I hunted Iowa with bow (before they demanded an arm and a leg for a non-res license) I had an old buck I had named "beams" that I saw numerous times. He had steer horns like that with mass but just a few rounded nubbins for points. He looked to be a very old buck. One of my most memorable mornings was when the sun was just breaking the horizon and he came out in a glissening frosty set-aside field and stood there looking around, with steam coming out of his nostrils at each breath. Magnificent.

 

[1100 Remington Man]

Nice Buck. It's sad I bought a TC Renagade 54 & have yet to shoot it. I live in Iowa I'm going to have to make time & go Muzzel loading for deer my self looks like fun.

 

[house]

Very nice! He diffidently needed to be culled out of the herd.

 

[mike garner]

nice buck! i killed my first flintlock deer about a week ago. i know the thrill you must have had!

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats.Griz

 

[paul54]

Congrats on the nice buck. :thumbsup: Looks like he needed to come out of the gene pool.

 

[Tony Logan]

great hunt and that's a nice gun for sure