I am new to this forum and I think there is just amazing information on here. My brother and I switched to muzzle loading this year after I took about 4 years off of hunting archery. I had to quit because of a pinched nerve in my neck. So I had been really craving wild game and I told my wife I was thinking I wanted to hunt again but I did not want to modern, that I wanted to try muzzle loading beings archery is no longer a option for me. So I went and bought a TC Blackdiamond last year after Christmas and started learning how to shoot it , and it has been fun. So we started the season we didn't have much time to scout the early season so we came home empty handed. Then for the late season we did some scouting for some elk and this was during the modern season, which reminded me why I dint like to hunt modern. We had some ideas of what we wanted to do.
Then comes late season and we were hunting gmu 550, and I was surprised at how many hunters there were. But after 4 years of not hunting I was enjoying every minute of hunting, so to me wheather I got something or not the season was a success to me.
We didn't get anything the 1st weekend but we saw a couple of cows, which was encouraging. So the next weekend i believe was Thanksgiving so we didn't have time to get back down south so we decided we would take a look at gmu 501. We saw alot of sign and we were encouraged. We were hitting all gates to get off the main roads. And just before dark we saw something spoke at about a 100yrds, and I thought that was kind of weird, because we were pretty quiet, i had a thought that must have been a buck. So I told Rick my brother I wanted to go back there on sunday 1st thing. So we went back there on Nov 30th 1st thing and it is just foggy and I am psst cant see nothing, well Rick decided he was going to walk down this trail and I here booom
this was at like 7:15 am and I going yes, score. So I go over where he was, and he thought he heard something so that is why he went off and sure enough it was a 2pt that I am positive we heard on that past Friday. It was awesome. So we pack him out and now it is my turn. It is about 10 am am I am thinking foggy getting late probably not my day. Well I go down another blocked gate thinking its getting to be lunch time I'm hungry a little discouraged and at about 12:30 I'm walking down this road and what do I see a deer trying not to be seen. Hum I think I better put the binos on this and low and behold it was a nice doe. I am not really a horn hunter more of a meat eater and beings I haven't had any meat in 4 years I am happy. So I take the safety off and put my Rookie muzzle loading skills to test and boom, I see the deer walk away and I m thinking 70 yards and missed. No I walk down in this think nasty area in which see was and, she walked about 20 yards and became a dirt licker. A perfect shot right behind the shoulders not a piece of meat wasted. I hope the pics show
