time fer round two.................

[bob1961]

well PA's regular deer season closes on sat, till flintlock opens on dec 26th i'll be trying to get out these last three days....if my body lets me tommorrow after i'm out today and not to exhausted after today's hunt....hope i get a doe these next few days, then that leaves me my buck tag that i can use as a buck or doe tag in flintlock season after x-mass....unless a dandy walks out in front of me by saturday....all yer's success stories get me wanting to be out there more then i have been able to be :v ...............bob

 

[agill]

Bob,

Good luck on your hunt.

 

[hawkeye1755]

Waidmanns Heil, Bob.
I just looked at the weather forcast for Lackawaxen: Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy and windy. Snow flurries and a few snow showers. Cold. High 29F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Have fun.
:hatsoff:

 

[jethro224]

I'll be looking forward to reading YOUR success story in a few days...
Good luck! :thumbsup:

 

[snagg]

Bob:
Good luck on your hunting. Hope your successful. I'm only able to get out Sat. and only have a doe tag in PA. left. Will be using the flinter though.
Sunday will be back up to N.Y.

Good luck, snagg

 

[bob1961]

well i'm back had 5 doe bout 75 yards out in a field the camp that i have permission to hunt....when some guy drove up the road and stopped dead behind the deer from me on the road 30 yards behind the deer :cursing: ....waited bout 2 minutes then drove off, went up the road turned round and stopped right behind the deer on the road again till they ran off :cursing: :cursing: ....i went on a stalk to the other end of the camp along the river to see if any deer are at that[url] end....nuttin[/url] but the flock of turkeys that i saw last month, i'd swear they were laughing at me :rotf: ....went back to the other end of the camp grabbed a lawn chair set it up in the corner of one of the cabins decks and settled in....4:00 pm two of the deer came back and set up eating bout 90 yards out in the field from me....had a good rest on the railing of the deck and a solid seat in the pvc lawn chair settled the sites and boom, smoke cleared the two deer hopping away with there flags up....but stopped bout 120 yards out just in the trees and started feeding again swishing there tails so i knew i missed :shake: ....then started back towards the field again and back within 75 yards in the grass again :grin: ....so i reloaded while they were watching me, even bent over to take the weight off the chair to turn it fer a good rest again :rotf: ....got my sites on her again and boom, missed again :shocked2: ....they ran off into the woods again and stopped again :hmm: ....so hear goes the reloading game again while they watched me :grin: ....this time they were to my far right and had to get up and get to the other corner of the deck and stood on the corner of the cabin and used the building as a rest this time....sites at the ready and "click" no fizzz no boom just a loud click :cursing: ....cocked the gun set the trigger and click again :cursing: :cursing: ....cocked it again and click again :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: ....pulled my primer out and juiced the pan a little and maybe that was it, since i just let the reload prime the pan like it does when i don't plug the touch hole....got the sites set and boom, saw the one run off with it's tail waveing and the one shot at with it tucked tight and just fast walking into the woods and up the hill then just walk up over the top and out of site....get my heart to slow down a bit since it's been 2004 since i brought a deer home....loaded the rifle and went looking fer her....found good drops of blood but my mag lite was playing games with me....so i headed back to my car to get the good flashlight loaded all my stuff i didn't need rifle also "this will prove to be a bad thing later"....went back to the blood i found and started tracking again....then a good ol blizzard came whoshing in and covered my blood trail with a 1/2" of snow, can't see where i'm going cause it's coming in sideways and head on to me from the direction i'm going :shake: ....now i'm on a sight search fer the deer in a dang blizzard my glasses getting all wet, can't see cause i'm getting pelted with snow in the eyes :rotf: ....i'm doing good fer my first time back in the woods tracking a shot deer since surgery huh guys ....now i'm just looking fer a dead deer now and hope to find it soon to get out of this blizzard :rotf: ....then almost stepped on her coming round a big tree 8' feet in front of me, but she was still with me looking at me and me looking back with the flash light....well i'm in no shape to try to finish her off with my knife in a hand to hoof combat in the middle of a blizzard and at night :rotf: :rotf: ....so i just stood there hopeing she goes peacefuly....this is the bad part i told ya bout earlier bout leaveing the gun back at the car :hmm: ....i'd bet anyone anything if i brought the gun it wouldn't have gone boom when i needed it to ....i made a noise coughing and off she went, that was my que to come back later or tommorrow mourning....so i tied a blue bandana to a sapling to mark the spot of last sighting of her and here i am typing my adventures in deer hunting with a flintlock in a dang blizzard....update to follow later if i go back out or tommorrow's noon time news :v ................bob

 

[roundball]

Hope you find her...what kind of load were you using at that range?

 

[RickD]

Good luck on your hunt.I hope to read your story

 

[bob1961]

it was bout 60 yard shot using
70 gr goex 3f
.490 hornady ball
T/C .015 pre lubed patch :v ...........bob

 

[jethro224]

Uh-oh... sounds like maybe a gut shot. You probly got a dead deer out there. Just takes a while.
Good luck finding her tomorrow. I hope she didn't go much farther after you bumped her.

 

[bob1961]

i'm thinking it was high above the lungs and under the spine....as the blood was bright red not dark like a liver shot, and there was no stomach contents anywhere along the blood trail, just bright red blood....where she was lying when i moved her there was two puddles of blood on both sides of her and they were on her front half of her body, so it was a pass through shot....so i'm real sure the shot hit her above the diaphram on the heart lung side of it....just hope the yotes don't find her before i do....my son gets on the school van at 7:15 so i will be back there by 7:30 :v .................bob

 

[Cherokee]

Good luck there Bob.
Days like those sometimes you just have to set back and smile.

 

[bob1961]

i was out there today from where i last saw her and covered 400 - 500 yard radius from that spot and no deer ....seen some crows by the tracks but nothing was where they all were, don't know why they were there no nothing was there....found bout 4 beds that had no blood in them so it wasn't hers....she just vanished ....i'll try again saturday the last day of regular season then wait till flintlock season....sorry guys :v ............bob

 

[rabjr]

Hate those Kevlar wearin deer!

 

[snagg]

Sorry you didn't find her. Maybe you'll have better luck tomorrow.

snagg

 

[playfarmers]

I am sorry for you, it is always tough to take a off shot. My wife shot a nice buck the first year she used a muzzleloader, and the exact same thing happened. The buck actually hit the ground and then got up and ran. We tracked for over 4 hours and at the end of that it ran across an open field as if nothing was wrong. She shot the same buck 3 weeks later with a modern rifle. The original ball went through the shoulder blade, under the spine and exited through the off shoulder blade. The buck was healed up and in fine shape, it just had a couple of bald patches where the ball had entered and exited, and a sack of little bone splinters next to the wound channel. Take heart it may be all right too.

 

[jethro224]

Too bad you didn't find her...

Better luck next time.

 

[mikee51848]

Sorry to hear that bob, good luck in the next season, and thank God you were able to enjoy that day anyway. :v