Flintlock doe down in PA

[Hatchet-Jack]

Congratulations! Meat in the freezer.

 

[JeffG]

Nice rifle and nice deer! Congrats!

 

[Old Timer 48]

Congratulations!

 

[toot]

I tried to tuck the tongue back in as I try to take tasteful "kill photos". Believe it or not, it was a good shot, but not perfect. It felt good and I was surprised that she had taken off in a straight line, albeit bleeding fairly well for a roundball shot. She probably went a full 250 yards (leaving an acceptable blood trail the whole way), before I caught up to her in her bed, too sick to get up or go on. You can't tell in these photos, but believe it or not, I put a coup de grace in her head, knocked her other eye out and left a pretty big hole.

I see guys on here mentioning all of the time how they've never had one run, have never wounded one, etc. etc. and while I'm not calling anyone a liar, that's not been my experience at all. I don't know exactly how many deer I've killed with a flintlock, but I'm guessing that I'm at 20 or more now and at least half of them have run off after the shot and probably closer to 75%. Of those, most were "hit hard" and some were hit perfectly, yet they still ran, sometimes as far as 100, 150, 200 yards or more (like this one). When I saw her in her bed, I could see that my shot had been slightly back and I wasn't sure if I would have hit a lung or two or not, but one of the lungs was collapsed and partly sticking out of the entrance hole, so clearly she was mortally wounded and hit reasonably well. Sometimes they still run and they don't always leave a great blood trail.

For what it's worth, the shot was with a .530 roundball, .020 linen patch and 85 grains of FFFg. Sometimes they have an amazing will to live.

don't we all!. thanks for the trying to tuck the tongue back in. not to worry. and still a great shot. isn't a 54 CAL. a great weapon?

 

[Chief Ten Beers]

Awesome score.