Sunday, Monday and Tuesday it rained lightly but nonstop and stayed about 55-60 degrees Fahrenheit with endless fog and mist. Wednesday it poured rain until noon, at which point the air began to clear enough where in a day a flintlock could be reasonably expected to spark. By Thursday the sun was out in full, the temperature was up to 70 degrees, and while a flintlock will work in those conditions, the elk will not. All things considered, the percussion rifle was the right gun for the awful conditions in a once in a lifetime hunt. Having devoted five days to this elk hunt, I departed Thursday night and wished everyone else there good luck, which they did not have. I wish PGC would extend an elk season for bad weather.
Satire and this board just don’t mix. Not much of a sense of humor around here either.
I own more percussion guns than flintlocks…and I hunt all season long with them here even when the conditions/terrain don’t make it an advantage. So my hats off to you. I know what it’s like to go home empty handed.
My 14 year old hunts black powder and modern guns. Just this year he has made shots on deer and hogs to 700 yards with my 338L, 300PRC and a couple of integrally suppressed 6.5s (I train LE and military) and he likes to give me a hard time about my .62 Plains gun, or a .40 flint Lancaster. But it’s not about the killing for me anymore…it’s about how I do it.