Primitive Rifle Kill, Okay to Post???

[Etter1]

#5675

It may not be a trad bow, but it’s the first deer I’ve killed with a flintlock since my first deer fifteen years ago. If this isn’t okay to post here, moderators please delete. If it’s cool, I’ll post the story later. I’m out of Ga buck tags. Thank god for check in and quota hunts.

[Raymond Coffman]

#43770

well done with the “Rocklock”

Most Trad and most difficult rifle to hunt with!

Scout

[paleoman]

#43784

Ok to post by me! Very nice buck and I love flintlocks too.

[Etter1]

#43977

It’s been the year of no reactions for me. I killed a pig on opening morning of bow season. The arrow zipped right through behind the shoulder and the pig showed no reaction. Next, I shot a buck in the same spot and the arrow went right through. He trotted a few yards and looked around like nothing happened. I shot both of those critters a second time before they realized what happened.

I was sitting with my .50 flintlock in a little tripod in a dry swamp when I spotted this 8pt slipping along the edge towards me. He got inside thirty yards and I fired. He bounded like nothing happened and then walked a few feet out of my sight. I climbed down to look for blood and came face to face with him in the thicket. He blew at me and bounded away. I figured I must’ve missed.

I climbed back up and heard thrashing behind me. I kept replaying the shot over and over in my head. Nope, no way that I missed him. Climbed back down and immediately found blood. He was spraying from his left side only (entrance) and it was every time he landed. I found lung blood and rumen sprayed on limbs about mid body height. I followed that for thirty yards and called my buddy Tailfeather. Decided to back out.

Headed back to camp and waited for my buddies (Tom and Tommy) to come and meet me. 2 hours later, we went back in. The blood trail instantly ended. We started running transects in the direction I heard the thrashing and my buddy Tom walked right up on him.

The bullet had gone in behind the shoulder and gotten one lung and a very loaded paunch. Bullet stick in skin just in front of offside hip. The rumen coming out the hole blocked it up and he didn’t bleed for the last 80 yards.

I was starting to feel nauseous when Tom yelled to me. Amazing critters!!! The first deer I’ve killed with a flintlock since my first one!!

3.5 year old by jaw

[bruc]

#44025

Nice Deer !!!

[garydavis]

#44215

nice looking deer. Congrats

Gary

[Col Mike]

#44347

Nice buck. When I hunted with the smoke poles my comment was –I don’t know how the Indians lost.

Defiantly Trad. But I don’t have to clean my long bow. Oh what a mess. congrats.

Semper Fi

Mike

[Etter1]

#44491

colmike wrote: Nice buck. When I hunted with the smoke poles my comment was –I don’t know how the Indians lost.

Defiantly Trad. But I don’t have to clean my long bow. Oh what a mess. congrats.

Semper Fi

Mike

Oh yeah, the cleaning is a nightmare:D

[Konrad]

#45236

Congratulations!

I have a “modern” front loading weapon (cap lock) but still get tremendous satisfaction when fellow marksmen saunter down to my bench and inquire as to what devise I am using to produce that large, single hole in the target…and all that smoke.

I hand cast my own projectiles and use large quantities of fffg black powder.

What great fun until the cleaning time comes.

Removal of the barrel and placing the breech end into a bucket of hot soapy water, then pumping a swab up and down is the fastest, easiest and most effective bore cleaning method I have yet to discover.

[Etter1]

#45274

Konrad wrote: Congratulations!

I have a “modern” front loading weapon (cap lock) but still get tremendous satisfaction when fellow marksmen saunter down to my bench and inquire as to what devise I am using to produce that large, single hole in the target…and all that smoke.

I hand cast my own projectiles and use large quantities of fffg black powder.

What great fun until the cleaning time comes.

Removal of the barrel and placing the breech end into a bucket of hot soapy water, then pumping a swab up and down is the fastest, easiest and most effective bore cleaning method I have yet to discover.

That’s the way I do it too. Wonderful guns to shoot, and remarkable to hunt with.

[CareyE]

#45566

Great deer. Congratulations!

[David Coulter]

#45634

A flintlock was the first step toward traditional archery some years ago. I built one from an old CVA kit, but with an K&R lock. That was a turning point for me. When it came to archery, a compound was only fleeting interest. I wanted to dig out the old recurve and get started again.

Really nice deer. Congratulations! dwc

[William Warren]

#46702

Nice buck! While I never owned a flint lock, I have killed a few deer with percussion and patched round balls. Probably more than with any other weapon. To me it is most effective at “bow range”. Well placed shots usually drop the deer in its tracks. The only ones I have ever had to trail up were shot with conicals but conicals are not really necessary. I know some feel percussion is not primitive enough but to me its about the one shot you get that matters most. Like bowhunting it must be calculated and carefully executed.

[jaytbuzzard]

#46723

Really nice deer. I have a flintlock muzzleloader that wasw given to me by a customer earlier this year. I would love to take a deer with it this season. I think it fits perfectly with traditional bows.

[paleoman]

#47755

Etter1 wrote: [quote=colmike]Nice buck. When I hunted with the smoke poles my comment was –I don’t know how the Indians lost.

Defiantly Trad. But I don’t have to clean my long bow. Oh what a mess. congrats.

Semper Fi

Mike

Oh yeah, the cleaning is a nightmare:D

I kind of don’ t mind the cleaning and even find it relaxing! Just give yourself enough time to do it right. There’s satisfaction in there for some of us:)

[Troy Breeding]

#47772

Smoke Pole or Trad Bow. Both make to some serious woodsmanship when it comes to making meat.

Great buck brother!!!!

Troy

[Devildog Denver]

#53483

A true trophy my friend. Far out! Good on ya man. I love to see people harvesting food traditionally. Cheers mate.

[Stumpkiller]

#54114

Nice! That’s a fine buck!

Next to traditional bows my flintocks are my favored hunting tools. I go after deer with a flintlock rifle and gouse and bunnies with a flint fowler.

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