Very Successful Squirrel Hunt!

[Wehrmacht]

Five of us hunting...our annual 4 day squirrel hunt/camp.( 19th year!)

Tally: 92 squirrels,2 wood ducks,1 wild boar, several bottles of good Kentucky sour mash and for me...a six-pak of outstanding GERMAN BIER sent to me by Mein Freund Deutch,UNDERTAKER :grin:. I killed the hog,a young boar weighing about 100-120 pounds, and gained a new respect for the abilities of a .32cal squirrel rifle!

The hog gave me a broadside shot at 37 yards,and I put a PRB just behind the shoulder. The ball broke a rib going in,passed through both lungs and lodged on the far side rib cage without passing all the way through. The hog ran about 65-70 yards and piled up.

I was hunting with my little .32cal H.House Southern Mountain Rifle, 28gr 3f, cast round ball weighing 45gr, .012 denim patch lubed with bear oil. It all comes down to shot placement as all of us know. Even a little .32cal ball through both lungs will do the trick :thumbsup:.

 

[Roy]

Congrats! :thumbsup:

 

[Pork Chop]

Bravo! I am jealous though. You got to hunt squirrels, hogs AND drink German Bier?? Man, I just ain't livin right! :haha:

 

[jethro224]

Sounds like a heck of a good time!

That's gonna be one BIG pot of squirrel stew. :shocked2:

Good shootin' with that .32! :hatsoff:

 

[spitfire]

Nothing like hunting them skwerls.Congrats! :thumbsup:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Just think of them squacks swimming in gravy! :applause: and that young boar in a smoker :thumbsup:

 

[XXX]

Hey D.F.


Do you ever shoot .32 conicals?

 

[Wehrmacht]

No, never shoot conicals in my flintlocks. The pieces that I have are strictly round ball rifles. The twist in the .32cal is 1:48,so a conical would not give the accuracy that a PRB will give. I have other larger cal flintlocks with 1:66 and 1:72 twists,and these would give even less accuracy with conicals. Others may disagree with my thoughts on this,but it is pretty well accepted that conicals in Kentucky Longrifles aren't as accurate as PRB's. My thoughts,anyway :winking:.

 

[hawkeye1755]

Great hunt,Rich. :bow:
I hope that you drink the Winterbookbier in the evening after the hunt. :grin:
What happend to the 'Thunder Wheat beer'? :hmm:
:hatsoff:

 

[XXX]

Thanks. When Can we expect pictures?

 

[KyFlintlock]

congrats on your outstanding hunt, any pics?

:hatsoff:

 

[Wehrmacht]

Yes, I have a pic,but I have to wait until my son is here to help me post it! I'm not too "savvy" with computers :haha:.

The Bier was consumed after dark with GREAT pleasure :thumbsup:. The Donner Weizen "High Octane" Bier will be consumed this Thursday as a special treat during our Thanksgiving Dinner :hatsoff:.

 

[renovato]

Now that's just about the most perfect hunt I can think of, and to get a hog too! I'm surprised at the abilities of the little .32. I had always thought of them as for the smallest game only. Congrats all around. That beer sure is sounding good!

 

[hawkeye1755]

The Donner Weizen "High Octane" Bier

13% alcohol and 25% original wort ( Stammwürze). :shocked2:
:hatsoff:

 

You mean you shot that hog in the right place with a 32 cal. and it didn't ferociously charge, attempt to hook you with it's viscious tusks, try to stomp you into the ground and use you for fodder over the next couple days? Are you saying it just died when shot in the right place with so small a caliber as a 32 and at such close range? Incredible! To hear it told it takes no less than a 470 Nitro Express to merely wound a hog so it can be followed up and finished off with a 577. :rotf: :rotf:

Great hunt!!!

Vic

 

[Wehrmacht]

Hey sharps, we sat around the fire that evening and after a couple of snorts of that good "white stuff" thought about concotcing some big lie about how the boar had come out of the palmettos in an attack mode,and me knowing that I had but one shot and no handy tree to climb,etc etc :rotf: :rotf: ....but that's as far as we got! I want to maintain my reputation for honesty :shake:

The Donner Weizen is reserved for a special treat on Thursday,day after tomorrow!!! That's our Thanksgiving Day,and I have a lot to be thankful for,INCLUDING a Friend in Deutchland who went to the trouble and expence of sending me a sample of Bier Deutch :hatsoff: :bow:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

From what I've read many of the woodsmen that came to New Orleans with Jackson had 'smallbore' rifles - I haven't read how small but the riflemen were instucted to 'aim at the chest buttons on the coats' of the British at 50 yards. Seems that those 'smallbore' rifles had devasting effect on full-grown men, so a game animal would be hit just as hard.

 

[PreglerD]

When the German critics of ML-hunting read this -god bless you- they will call it not animalfriendly (waidgercht) at all, they wouild say deer tormentor, they would say that They did ever knew it for Americans hunting is only fun without respect for the animal and so on bla, bla. I say good shot, congrats and Waidmanns Heil. not the rifle, but the user is responsible for good shooting.

Greetimgs from Bavaria, Germany

 

[david50]

better check for a pulse,sounds to me like you've died and went to heaven :thumbsup:

 

[Wehrmacht]

I am happy and pleased, David! :winking:

Freund Kirrmeister,

Perhaps before you say anything about this one example I should clarify a couple of things to make sure that you don't trap yourself with the Hunting Lobby :hmm:.

In Florida the minimum calibre allowed by law for DEER hunting is .40cal. To the best of my knowledge no requirements on powder charge,muzzle velocity,foot pounds of pressure at any range,just simply .40cal. I would not shoot a deer with with my little .32cal since I am an obedient servent of the civil laws,and I truly question a .32cal's ability to knock down a big deer in most cases.But I can tell you for a fact that many deer and bear are poached with .22 Long Rifle ammo and .22 mags.

Feral or wild hogs fall into a different legal catagory. On private land, and I was on private land owned by a friend, wild hogs are considered to be the property of the landowner,and he/she may kill, feed, pet or ignore the hogs as he/she chooses. Any firearm would be permitted by law in this case. That is one of the reasons that I shot this hog with a small ball and charge,and even as I did so I knew that unless the ball penetrated BOTH lungs or the heart,there was little likelyhood that I would recover the wounded animal. Notice that I said "one of the reasons". Here is the other reason,though I doubt that it will have any influence on those that you are so rightfully trying to educate.

Feral hogs are the most destructive exotic animal that we have on the environment, hands down! Nothing living in our forests-including Homo boobiensis (MAN :winking: ) is more in competition with all native species than are wild hogs :shocked2:. Deer and turkey,especially, are severely hurt in competing for food stuff. Nothing limits the population of deer and especially turkey more than wild hogs. I will shoot to kill OR wound everyone that I possibly can (legally :winking: ) hoping that if I don't capture it disease will! My position on this is not based on uneducated emotional opinion. Rather on spending a career of over 40 years managing forests and wildlife,and associating with wildlife biologists more capable than I am in assessing damage caused by wild hogs.

The fact remains,however,that even a small charge/ball,put on target,will do the job. You do have an arguement there! And one other thing....during our Civil War-commonly referred to down South as "The Wah of Yankee Aggression" or the "Wah Between The States"( :haha: :blah: ) a .54-.58cal Minie Ball,about 500gr of soft lead,pushed by 60 or so grains of black powder produced some of the most horrible and man stopping wounds imiginable! Illustrations of these wounds were studied for years afterward,and were largely responsible for modern day rules of war-the Geneva Accords-requiring full metal jacketed sharp pointed modern projectiles. Reduces the killing wound scenario allowing those shot some chance of some level of recovery,you see :shake:.Wonder if that works for wildlife species,too?