Ron LaClair
In Rembrance
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Some years ago I commissioned a local gun maker to build me a smoothbore. He started on the gun late in the season and I wasn't sure if it would be done in time to use by the time the late muzzleloading season arrived.
As it turned out the gun was done just before the season opened. It was nothing fancy, just a plain trade gun in 20ga. I got busy around the shop and never had time to take the gun to the range to see how it would shoot a round ball before I was to head north to the farm for the opening of the deer season.
I decided to load the gun with the same load I used in one of my other guns, 80gr 2FF behind a 595 prb and hope for the best.
The morning of the first day found me in the woods before daylight in one of my old blinds made of natural material. Not long after daylight I heard deer coming before I even saw them, a group of a half dozen deer came out of the pines and came in my direction.
I eared back the hammer to full cock and concentrated on the lead doe. When the deer were abreast of me at about 30 yards I settled the front sight of my smoothbore behind her shoulder and squeezed the trigger. At the boom of the gun deer scattered everywhere but I kept my eye on the one I had shot at. She whirled and ran back in the direction she had come from but only made about three bounds before nose diving into the snow.
I stood up and turned to look in the direction of where the other deer had ran. It was then I noticed a deers legs kicking on the ground just beyond where I had shot the doe. It took a few seconds to realize what had happened....another doe had been on the other side of the one I had shot and the ball had gone through the first deer and killed the 2nd one.
what were the odds of that happening?
Later in the telling of the story to some of my hunting buddies, one of them said, you've got to name that gun "Two-Fer"..... so that's the story of the two-fer gun.
As it turned out the gun was done just before the season opened. It was nothing fancy, just a plain trade gun in 20ga. I got busy around the shop and never had time to take the gun to the range to see how it would shoot a round ball before I was to head north to the farm for the opening of the deer season.
I decided to load the gun with the same load I used in one of my other guns, 80gr 2FF behind a 595 prb and hope for the best.
The morning of the first day found me in the woods before daylight in one of my old blinds made of natural material. Not long after daylight I heard deer coming before I even saw them, a group of a half dozen deer came out of the pines and came in my direction.
I eared back the hammer to full cock and concentrated on the lead doe. When the deer were abreast of me at about 30 yards I settled the front sight of my smoothbore behind her shoulder and squeezed the trigger. At the boom of the gun deer scattered everywhere but I kept my eye on the one I had shot at. She whirled and ran back in the direction she had come from but only made about three bounds before nose diving into the snow.
I stood up and turned to look in the direction of where the other deer had ran. It was then I noticed a deers legs kicking on the ground just beyond where I had shot the doe. It took a few seconds to realize what had happened....another doe had been on the other side of the one I had shot and the ball had gone through the first deer and killed the 2nd one.
what were the odds of that happening?
Later in the telling of the story to some of my hunting buddies, one of them said, you've got to name that gun "Two-Fer"..... so that's the story of the two-fer gun.