Smoothbore makes meat…
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Everything about your hunt makes it the kind you'll remember forever. Congratulations !!
Steve Allen
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Absolutely wonderful kill, love the smoothboresI saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..
I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..
Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..
25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.View attachment 269691View attachment 269692View attachment 269693
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When my home state decided to allow BP hunting, a smoothbore only was required. I have an original 16 Ga. percussion in fine condition so I miked the bore and gently rolled 12 Ga. 1 oz.Foster slugs between two pieces of heavy steel until they were bore diameter for the 16. They looked like a huge wadcutter when I was done. I lubed them with bore butter and loaded them over a 16 Ga. Power Piston and 70 Grs. of Goex FFG. They shot dead center at 25 yds in a 2-1/2" group using the bead front and a spot of white nail polish at the back. I never did see a deer to shoot at but I have no doubt about the results if I had connected with one. After the season was over I discovered that Round Balls only were required. Oh well, now that it's legal I could use it but the Renegade my wife gave me for Christmas the following year shoots a lot better. That elongated 1 oz. Foster slug certainly certainly flew well enough to get the job done!
Congrats on the fine kill and a fine hunt there smo. You did good.
Your due diligence payed off. Perfect shot placement to put one down on the spot as well.
Your due diligence payed off. Perfect shot placement to put one down on the spot as well.
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You have impeccable taste in firearms, Smo. What a fine shot and handsome buck. Having spent most of my life in the brushy evergreen conifer forests of the Northwest, I'd love to hunt with a flintlock in the open grace of an eastern hardwood forest in fall. Doubt it will ever happen. All y'all who take this for granted -- don't.
I saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..
I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..
Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..
25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.
Thats a nice one, good job
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Congratulations! Good looking buck!!I saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..
I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..
Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..
25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.
Congratulations, John.... something special in making it happen with one of Tip's guns.
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Congratulations on a fine buck!!
Hatchet-Jack
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Well done! I hope to have a chance at a buck with my PA Fowler next week.
wow. nice
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That's A fine buck! The gun looks great across the antlers
