My mouth started watering when I read the title of the post. Wasn’t until I clicked on it that I realized what you meant. I’m always thinking with my stomach...
Congrats on your harvest and great accomplishment!
Congrats on the late season flinter deer. Every time I see one of them long rifles, it makes more more hyped up to pull the trigger on one, so to speak.
Glad to see someone got one...I saw one lone deer in the snow last Saturday and haven't seen a deer since. Where I hunt, that ice crust was terrible and made it impossible to sneak up on anything. I may try to get out after this downpour is over.
The spots I could hunt this past week are woods only, so it has been tough. I loved seeing that snow come down but I knew it would turn out terrible due when it turned to sleet 3pm last Saturday.
Looks like 90 minutes here. I have a plan, but unfortunately I left my climber seat out in the woods last night...I'll have to take the seat from my main climber.
I got out and took a stand where I thought I stood the best chance of seeing deer, but thought the chance of a shot was low. No deer tonight.
'Yotes wiped out the gut pile already from my doe from Thursday. There was a 10' "crop circle" they flattened around the gut pile, the stomach contents, and not one thing else left over. They made short work of that....maybe my 223 and I need to get out there this winter...
It cut loose raining again as soon as I got settled up a tree. Squirrels were still out though, really standing out bright grey in that light. Then the fog came in waves. A fox came through twice. I didn't see deer until after 4:30 or so when they came out to feed in a cornfield about 3/4 mile away. Five does I think, one really small yet. There was a guy in a ladder stand in that field a couple weeks ago wearing orange, and he didn't shoot that evening. At least not a gunshot, and I doubt he'd have orange on for bow. These deer were in bowrange to his stand and the wind was right, too, but I didn't see him tonight. Well, cars will probably kill one or two of them before September.
That's about the end of "point and shoot" for that rifle. Beyond that and the trajectory starts looking like a ski jump ramp.
The vast majority of deer killed with a flintlock are inside 75 yards from the hunter. And not many are killed with a flintlock in a given year anyway, so one shot at or beyond 100 yards is a pretty uncommon event.
Very nice work, tdd! Way to win the game with a big kid muzzleloader and your own ball.
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