I began my hunt setting up a primitive camp (by 21st century standards) in the mountains of Highland County Virginia in the Hupman Valley on Highland Wildlife Management Area land. At nightfall, I sat alone by the small campfire dining on fresh Brunswick stew made with a fresh fox squirrel I had taken with my 45 caliber Cabela’s Blue Ridge rifle. I awoke early around 4:30 the next morning to find that the ground was frosty and the leaves were crunchy under my hard soled hunting boots. I had planned on still-hunting on top of the Bullpasture Mountain, but decided to hunt in my old ground stand since the noise from my approach would surely scare off the deer. I hastily prepared a breakfast and started off on foot in the darkness. I arrived at the stand just before daylight around 6:50 in the morning. I listened to some turkeys calling one another as they left the roost below me, but none showed their selves to me. Around 8:15 I needed to stretch and get the blood flowing back in my legs. So I stood a few minutes and it wasn’t long when I heard something running fast towards me. I readied my rifle in case the noise came from deer. Then out of the corner of my right eye I saw three deer coming my way about 40 yards up and to the right of me. The old doe stopped. I raised the rifle to my shoulder, but the old doe spotted me. She ran up the mountain out of sight a few yards. However, a younger less experience doe stepped into her spot. This was a mistake because my aim was true and the old rifle lock was quick to fire. As the white smoke shifted in the wind I saw her rolling down the mountain. I said a prayer of thanks and then rushed over to the fallen doe, which looked to be around 2 and ½ years old. Fine venison she will make! The Speer .445 round ball patched with a 0.010 Dixie pillow ticking lubed with Crisco broke through one of her right ribs and went out the other side taking out both lungs. Another successful hunt with my 45 caliber Cabela’s Blue Ridge rifle used during the general firearms season on an either sex hunting day.
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Successful flintlock hunting during general firearms season
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Congratulations on a fine story and a great hunt.
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Bath and Highland counties, Little Switzerland.. 
One of the more beautiful places in the whole USofA. Some of the best Ground Hog huntin and Trout fishin you ever saw. The sad part, is that most of old farms have been bought up by investors, mostly Foreign... :cursing:
One of the more beautiful places in the whole USofA. Some of the best Ground Hog huntin and Trout fishin you ever saw. The sad part, is that most of old farms have been bought up by investors, mostly Foreign... :cursing:- Joined
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Grats Flint Hunter :thumbsup:
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Congrats! And a great hunt!
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