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So I was finally able to get out and hunt our “Alternative“ Deer season today. After all the Christmas activities yesterday there was no way I was going to make it out early. So I took a walk into the woods around 11am this morning with my Woodman Smokeless converted Omega. I jumped a doe that was bedded down under a cedar tree close to my stand and scared the crap out of me. I was sitting over an acre of clover that fortunately is still thriving.
The hours drug on without even seeing a squirrel, which is very odd. The wind had picked up and nothing was moving even though a front was pushing in. About 4:20pm the wind finally died down with a little under and hour of shooting light left. After the wind died down the woods came to life at least for the squirrels. I checked my phone at 4:55pm, my buddy was wanting to know if I had seen anything. As I put my phone down, I caught some movement about 60 yards out in some tall grass.
I grabbed my binoculars and spotted the 7pt basket rack buck coming out of the grass and into the clover. He wasn’t a wall hanger, but that didn’t matter to me, I was hunting for meat. A small set of antlers was a bonus as I have never shot a buck before, only does. He was moving from my left to right and was in no particular hurry to exit the clover. A broadside boiler house shot at 60 yards was a chip shot. He jumped about 4’ in the air and bolted straight away from me. He stopped after about 30 yards and fell over behind a tree and breathed his last.
The load was 32g of N110 under a 195g Barnes Expander in a LBHS and it did the trick. Complete pass thru and left a very nice 30 yard blood trail. This was my first muzzleloader kill and hopefully not my last.
The hours drug on without even seeing a squirrel, which is very odd. The wind had picked up and nothing was moving even though a front was pushing in. About 4:20pm the wind finally died down with a little under and hour of shooting light left. After the wind died down the woods came to life at least for the squirrels. I checked my phone at 4:55pm, my buddy was wanting to know if I had seen anything. As I put my phone down, I caught some movement about 60 yards out in some tall grass.
I grabbed my binoculars and spotted the 7pt basket rack buck coming out of the grass and into the clover. He wasn’t a wall hanger, but that didn’t matter to me, I was hunting for meat. A small set of antlers was a bonus as I have never shot a buck before, only does. He was moving from my left to right and was in no particular hurry to exit the clover. A broadside boiler house shot at 60 yards was a chip shot. He jumped about 4’ in the air and bolted straight away from me. He stopped after about 30 yards and fell over behind a tree and breathed his last.
The load was 32g of N110 under a 195g Barnes Expander in a LBHS and it did the trick. Complete pass thru and left a very nice 30 yard blood trail. This was my first muzzleloader kill and hopefully not my last.
