Success and a thank you!

[ehepp]

First off I would like to thank everyone on this forum for the generosity to share their knowledge!! :applause:

I have learned a great deal here and have improved almost all aspects of my BP shooting. I have also become an addict. :shocked2: In addition to my 54 GPR I now also own a Pedersoli SXS 12 Ga. and a flint gun is on my Cristmas wish list. . . . . . . .

I know this is the hunting section, I'm getting around to it :yakyak:

I carry my GPR during the Wisconsin rifle season and have taken several deer with it. This year I was fortunate to harvest a nice little six point on opening day. The shot was about fourty yards with him facing me. Not my preffered angle but it was all he would give me. (I had passed on a fork horn earlier because I could not get a good shot)
Anyway I am confident in my accuracy at that range and took the shot. When the smoke cleared I saw him fall not thirty yards from where was hit. The ball hit right where I had intended and did its job well.

I'm the ugly one on the left

I shoot a 54 GPR, with a .530 ball, .018 patch, wonder wad and 90 grains of swiss BP. This has been a very accurate and effective load for me.

Thanks again :hatsoff:
Norge

 

[spitfire]

Congrats :thumbsup:

 

[RC]

ATTABOY and Congrats! :applause: musta been the "right"angle for you! good goin..and here's wishin ya get a flinter fer christmas! :hatsoff: and ugly??????? that's reserved fer modern...guns,,,which i suppose :hmm: ,,seenin how ya made no mention would belong to the ugly one on the right??????? right? :rotf: :rotf: congrats again! RC

 

[rabjr]

Grats Norge :thumbsup:

 

[snagg]

Congratulations Norge

 

[playfarmers]

Congrats, and very fine eating too.

 

[PitchyPine]

Very cool, congrats. :thumbsup:

 

[roundball]

Now there's a couple happy hunters, congratulations!
:hatsoff:

 

[Big John]

Good work, ...master blaster

 

[PreglerD]

Congrats and Waidmanns Heil from Bavaria, GE. Have ordered a GRP, too. Hope to get it soon. Who is the hunter to your left, if I may ask?

 

[ehepp]

Yep RC, my friends son shot his buck, his first I may add, with a modern weapon. He has hunted hard and been very patient holding out for a buck for quite a few years. We hunt in the Nicolet National Forest with fewer deer than there is in the farmland. He took a second buck the next day, a six about like mine.(It is legal to "group hunt" during the wisconsin gun season so his father tagged it) He was a very happy young man. So far I have "converted" about half of the hunters in camp, and from the sounds of it more will be sporting "smoke poles" next year

Norge

 

[RC]

well, attaboy to the boy! modern er not first buck is something special,,NOW he can get his first buck with black powder! keep convertin 'em there be power in numbers! good job! RC

 

[Claude Mathis]

Congratulations! :hatsoff:

 

[bramble]

way to go! That's showing 'em how its done.
bramble

 

[Halftail]

Congrats to you and that young fella.....Nice Bucks and Great Photo and story! :thumbsup:

 

[jethro224]

Congrats! :hatsoff: On the deer and the converts...
And congrats to the other guy to! Sounds like he's on a streak now! :thumbsup:

 

[Catof9tails]

Fantastic! :hatsoff:

Cat9

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Norge,

Congrats to the both of you! :thumbsup: GW

 

[The Baron]

Mmmm... fresh venison backstraps.

Congratulations! :thumbsup:

 

[renovato]

Congrats on a great hunt. A special congrats on becoming an addict and converting others. Us BP junkies like the company of fellow junkies! :rotf: