[outofstater]

Day one 2016 season 1 down. I cant believe tonight I was able to harvest a long over due flintlock kill. As you might of seen I bought this new traditions and was asking for help. Being busy , etc I never even got a chance to try it out. I got over at my camp around 3 pm this evening and loaded up. I took some advise given on here, I went with 80 grains of goex powder instead of pellets, then I was using a hornady around 230-2440 grainer polytip with sabot. Sitting in my stand for around 1.5 hour seen 2 doe around 90 yards . One started to come to me in a little bit more open area. I primed the pan modest and glad I cocked it then due to the noise. After around 4 minutes of her standing around 60 yards broadside little angle she was going to move back. I took fine aim and like I said before haven't even shot this new gun yet I thought I better touch off. I broke the trigger and very little if even delay she went off. O dropped gun down to look and see deer on ground kicking. I thought I better reload after she pretty well got up. I started to reload look out and she was taking off I thought holy crap I need this deer. I finish loading walk out and start looking and there it layed. I took it thru the shoulder with an exit in the neck. After I did my tagging ,etc I decided to be total primitive and skin on the ground. I hauled it down to y gravel driveway laid down a tarp and did so. This works good since I'm in a cwd area and have to haul certai parts to special dumpster. I still have 3 tags left and will try again. This flintlock kill I really needed, got me real excited. Thanks to everyone who gave me some good advise, I listened and put to work.

 

[GermanHillHunter]

Congrats! Nothing like gettin em with the musket.

 

[5chunter]

Congrats on kill. Nothing like smoked meat! One question and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but if I read your post correctly you are saying that you never fired the gun before and your first shot was on the deer.

 

[outofstater]

Yes you read correct and I'm not proud of that except for the kill. I had so much going on could not get to range. Now tomm. I'm going to and I probably wont be able to hit anything on paper.

 

[K. Gus]

I don't see where any congrats are in order here

you took a rifle you never fired hunting that could have been shooting a foot low, high, left or right and could have just as easy been a gunshot or broken leg

this shows a total lack of respect for the deer and is irresponsible

 

[Blue Bird]

Congrats on the kill. I think you were extremely lucky.

 

[outofstater]

I don't see where any congrats are in order here

you took a rifle you never fired hunting that could have been shooting a foot low, high, left or right and could have just as easy been a gunshot or broken leg

this shows a total lack of respect for the deer and is irresponsible

If you don't like the post you sure don't need to comment then! I didn't ask you or anyone else for a congrat but others did and you can comment else where.

 

[browtine64]

I completely agree with k.Gus. As ethical sportsmen we need to show the animals enough respect to at least make a clean shot to kill it quickly. Congrats on the deer, but if you would've missed or made a bad shot I wouldn't have felt much sympathy. Sorry, but complete carelessness in my opinion.

 

[outofstater]

Well I guess Ill try to explain my wrong doing. I buy a new in box gun for pretty close 500.00 figuring tax forgot the exact figure. The gun has factory fiber optic sites on it. I know guns very well and scopes of course of shooting in. I guess here is where I'm wrong its the only open site gun I have and my thinking was it was factory aligned. I would not of had first clue of how to adjust a factory site. I took the site picture of looking down the middle of both then shooting. Then the flinch part comes in to play, I could of had this issue and screwed with perfectly good sites and still messed up the entire thing. Yes I was lucky as well as many others going afield with guns they could not hit a bulls butt if they had to. What I took in to play was I thought the correct thing of the day was sitting inside my one elevated box stand on a misty day/ evening. The reason was me and the gun was dry, I did not prime pan until around 3-4 minutes prior to shot. I had a perfect rest to shoot from just knowing I had to talk to my self when breaking the trigger of not moving. I knew when I squeezed I did not move such as flinching, to me gun when off perfect. Some time ago I made a thread asking for help.

 

[Blue Bird]

Well I guess Ill try to explain my wrong doing. I buy a new in box gun for pretty close 500.00 figuring tax forgot the exact figure. The gun has factory fiber optic sites on it. I know guns very well and scopes of course of shooting in. I guess here is where I'm wrong its the only open site gun I have and my thinking was it was factory aligned. I would not of had first clue of how to adjust a factory site. I took the site picture of looking down the middle of both then shooting. Then the flinch part comes in to play, I could of had this issue and screwed with perfectly good sites and still messed up the entire thing. Yes I was lucky as well as many others going afield with guns they could not hit a bulls butt if they had to. What I took in to play was I thought the correct thing of the day was sitting inside my one elevated box stand on a misty day/ evening. The reason was me and the gun was dry, I did not prime pan until around 3-4 minutes prior to shot. I had a perfect rest to shoot from just knowing I had to talk to my self when breaking the trigger of not moving. I knew when I squeezed I did not move such as flinching, to me gun when off perfect. Some time ago I made a thread asking for help.

I've never encountered a new gun that had properly aligned sights, especially open sights. Firearm factories proof test guns by selecting a certain number from production, or in some cases each one. However all they're doing here is firing the gun to make sure it functions. They don't take the time and expense to sight them in as that takes more than just one shot. Its up to YOU, the consumer to do that.

As I said, I think you were extremely lucky that you got that deer, and didn't wound it or miss completely. Do yourself a favor and next time, at least visit the range once before the season to get an idea where the thing is hitting. And read up on how to adjust open sights. Its not that hard to do.

My opinion is, you bought the gun and were just so excited to use it that you didn't care about anything else...

 

[tdd]

Closed by request of the OP.