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Fianally a hog at night with my TC white mountain carbine 54

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Howie1968

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First and foremost thank you all who have helped me get back into traditional muzzleloading. its bee35 years since I hunted with a muzzleloader ive been bow only all these years. I'm very happy with this hog I stot the eating size sow in the dark under night time hog hunting lights that were red. shot distance 12 yards from ground blind to where I shot her. hunting out of a groundblind at night
was tough I could see the hogs but not my sights. I used a red led head mounted light to be able to see my sights. the group of 20 came in I squeezed the trigger and down she went. I was using a hornady great plains 425 gr with 80 grains of pyrodex select 2F with a oxyoke wonder wad.
Earlier in the day I checked game cameras and sure enough they were coming in. at 435pm a big boar came in got him lined up squezzed the trigger and s light pop. dang it I was such a rush I forgot to fire a couple caps to rid the barrel of oil. luckily I had a c02 ball charger with me I discharged the bullet swabbed the barrel and reloaded and hour later another group came in. this time I made it count drt took 1 step and toppled over
 
Excellent! Porks chops at your house for Sunday supper! :wink: :haha: :hatsoff:
 
Congratulations, well done. :bow: Sounds like you have it together. Pretty awesome fire from the barrel at night. I like to keep one eye closed so that the flash dosen't blind me. Keep yer powder dry........robin
 
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Hunting them at night is a total blast, the hardest problem is being able to see your open sights, ive got that figured out now. I used that site to upload to the forumn because photobucket not sure what happened there. there will be more to come. hoping they start coming in the daylight so maybe I can good footage. the next time I'm gonna use my lyman deerstalker in 54 with patched roundball
 
You did good on that hog, Howie. I've never liked night hunting - lazy - and much prefer early morning to all other times.
 
thank you sir not the biggest but my first critter after 30 years from traditional muzzleloading. I'm still irritated on my rookie mistake had a big boar 15 yards didn't swab my bore before hunting nor did I fire a couple caps prior to hunting to blow any oil out squeeze trigger a slight pop nothing waited 5 minutes had a co2 ball discharger blue the great plains bullet out run a patch down the bore an hour later I turned on my night hunting lights on another group of hogs came in boom down she went
 
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