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Northern Michigan Whitetail Doe. Field dressed 114#, 31 yard shot, 60 yard recovery. Center Lungs good Bloot trails. 50 cal Flintlock 36" barrel, .490 roundball, .018 pillow ticking, lubed with boar butter, 60 grains of 3F Swiss. Roundballdid not exit but was not recoverd.

 

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Sothern Michigan Whitetail Doe. Field dressed 147#, 82 yard shot, 150 yard recovery. Center lungs, complete pass through, clipped rib at entrance, shattered rib on exit, easy walkable blood trail. .50 Flintlock, 36" barrel, .490 hand cast roundball, .018 pillow ticking patch, 80 gr. Of 3F Swiss.

 

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6 pt. Whitetail buck, 20 yard shot angling toward me, 80 yard recovery, EASY blood trail. .50 cal flintlock, 36" barrel, .490 hand cast roundball, .018 pillow ticking patch luned with Bore butter, 80 gr. Of 3F Swiss. Roundball enterd at front point of left shoulder and found just under the skin at back nuckle of right shoulder. Top of heart, front lobe of one Lung. Full weight retention and doubled size in expansion.

 

[bpd303]

@muzzleloadingat18, you might get a better response if this thread is moved to the Muzzleloading Hunting Forum.

I agree and don't know if it's been mentioned, but flintlocks are ignored by the section it's posted in.