Smoothbore makes meat…

[Hiverano]

Nice buck, they are getting harder to find these days with prime ground going to the developers.

Here's one I got a few years ago, shot near Estes Park CO. Heavy buck, well feed with a nice rack.

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[godutch]

Everything about your hunt makes it the kind you'll remember forever. Congratulations !!

 

[Steve Allen]

I saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..

I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..

Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..

25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.View attachment 269691View attachment 269692View attachment 269693

Absolutely wonderful kill, love the smoothbores

 

[Whiteoak15]

When my home state decided to allow BP hunting, a smoothbore only was required. I have an original 16 Ga. percussion in fine condition so I miked the bore and gently rolled 12 Ga. 1 oz.Foster slugs between two pieces of heavy steel until they were bore diameter for the 16. They looked like a huge wadcutter when I was done. I lubed them with bore butter and loaded them over a 16 Ga. Power Piston and 70 Grs. of Goex FFG. They shot dead center at 25 yds in a 2-1/2" group using the bead front and a spot of white nail polish at the back. I never did see a deer to shoot at but I have no doubt about the results if I had connected with one. After the season was over I discovered that Round Balls only were required. Oh well, now that it's legal I could use it but the Renegade my wife gave me for Christmas the following year shoots a lot better. That elongated 1 oz. Foster slug certainly certainly flew well enough to get the job done!

 

[ETipp]

Congrats on the fine kill and a fine hunt there smo. You did good.

Your due diligence payed off. Perfect shot placement to put one down on the spot as well.

 

[BillinOregon]

You have impeccable taste in firearms, Smo. What a fine shot and handsome buck. Having spent most of my life in the brushy evergreen conifer forests of the Northwest, I'd love to hunt with a flintlock in the open grace of an eastern hardwood forest in fall. Doubt it will ever happen. All y'all who take this for granted -- don't.

 

[Juice Jaws]

I saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..

I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..

Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..

25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.View attachment 269691View attachment 269692View attachment 269693

Thats a nice one, good job

 

[Kev308]

I saw this buck around 08:30 this morning he crossed 75 yards or so out along the edge of a thicket only too disappear into a deep hollow..

I hit my grunt call a few times & threw in a few doe bleats just for good measure and settled back thinking he had wandered away..

Well at 08:45 he just had too come see what the excitement was all about..

25 yard shot with my Tip Curtis 16 gauge smoothbore..
70 grns fffg Goex & a patched .626 roundball.
This was my fist smoothbore deer.View attachment 269691View attachment 269692View attachment 269693

Congratulations! Good looking buck!!

 

[Robin Henderson]

Congratulations, John.... something special in making it happen with one of Tip's guns.

 

[Hammond79]

Congratulations on a fine buck!!

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Well done! I hope to have a chance at a buck with my PA Fowler next week.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Nice buck, they are getting harder to find these days with prime ground going to the developers.

Here's one I got a few years ago, shot near Estes Park CO. Heavy buck, well feed with a nice rack.

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wow. nice

 

[user 31232]

That's A fine buck! The gun looks great across the antlers