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Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 03:00:53 PM

Title: Late season round ball doe
Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 03:00:53 PM: Taken today 85yards trying to upload pics
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Post by: JasonG on December 10, 2017, 03:19:56 PM: looking foward to the pics and story!!
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Post by: lokidog on December 10, 2017, 06:20:17 PM: :tup:

My nicest Blacktail was shot with a .54 roundball at 80 yards on a late season hunt near Roseburg.
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 07:23:48 PM: Here
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 07:26:44 PM: Keeps says my pics didn't pass security checks to post? Wth
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Post by: lokidog on December 10, 2017, 07:37:07 PM: I resized them.
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Post by: h20hunter on December 10, 2017, 07:40:11 PM: Very cool.
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Post by: Brushcrawler on December 10, 2017, 07:48:14 PM: Well done with the real traditional gear!
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 07:58:00 PM: Thanks Loki
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Post by: lokidog on December 10, 2017, 08:03:04 PM: Quote from: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 07:58:00 PM
Thanks Loki

:tup:
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 08:10:25 PM: Walked in behind a locked gate today walk in only to check out a cut where I'd seen them a few days before. Hunted all morning but didn't see anything. The cut behind this gate is about 100 yards in maybe just a touch more. Each side of the cut is super thick with dog hair. Well the sun was Shane good and just as I'm coming up to the cut I decide to glass and to doze start coming out of the Timber and feeding I'm watching and watching and they start work there way down closer I cocked the hammer back to get ready to fire and they heard me the one was facing towards me and the other one was broadside so I stepped out from the tree I was behind and put the bead on the broadside one and let her rip. 85 yards was my distance and she ran about 20 yards and piled up by the time I got up to her she was done. I usually hunt With my knight bighorn 50 but always wanted to kill With a traditional setup. About 2 months ago I put an add on here and picked up a Thompson hawken 50 from a member here. I took it out to the ranged to get it sighted in. 80grn loose powder .495 round ball .15 patch. Needless to say I checked one off the bucket list :IBCOOL:
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Post by: lokidog on December 10, 2017, 09:20:30 PM: Sorry, DM, apparently my finger drooped and I locked the thread, it's open again.... :o
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 10, 2017, 09:27:01 PM: Lol it's ok
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on December 10, 2017, 09:28:50 PM: Congratz! Nice work :tup:
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Post by: duckmen1 on December 10, 2017, 10:03:26 PM: Very nice. Congrats
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Post by: Hilltophustler on December 11, 2017, 06:43:18 AM: Nicely done mike...She will eat nicely :tup:

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Post by: pianoman9701 on December 11, 2017, 06:53:39 AM: Way to go!
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Post by: grundy53 on December 11, 2017, 06:55:02 AM: Nice work!

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Post by: C-Money on December 11, 2017, 06:58:17 AM: Congrats!! Always fun to hunt with the cap & patched round ball!
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Post by: CP on December 11, 2017, 07:40:32 AM: :tup: Nice. I love that rifle. Looks like it has seen some action.
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Post by: Dirty Mike on December 11, 2017, 11:31:19 AM: Yeah it seen some things bought it from a member here who had it for about 25yrs it's the first generation hawken from Thompson doesn't have hawken stamped on the barrel or a blackpoweder warning eather. Internet says it was made between 1970 and 80 barrel is mint shape and was well taken care of
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Post by: Special T on December 11, 2017, 02:28:35 PM: Cool story! Congratulations!

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Post by: Forrestrover on December 11, 2017, 08:30:43 PM: :tup: