Thread: Deer and Yote

This is my first year to use a muzzleloader. Up until now I have only bow hunted and I still prefer it, but I'm starting to enjoy the additional range a gun affords. Thursday morning I went and sat down in a bush paying no attention to wind direction. Last weekend my buddies saw a couple of bucks, cruising our field. The smaller buck ran off, but the 7 point stayed put and the shot at him, twice, and missed. I went out there Thursday morning and sat down by his scrape and sure enough, at 7:10 he came across the field on a string towards the scrape with his nose to the ground the whole way. I stopped him at 60 yards and shot him in the neck. He dropped in his tracks.

Sunday morning I got back out there and a coyote was fooling around in the field about 200 yards away, which is a little out of my confidence range for a muzzleloader. Well, he made the mistake of wandering too close and I wiped the smile off his face when he got to my 100 yard mark.

Anyway, just wanted to share these two kills. These are my first kills with a muzzleloader and certianly will not be the last.

Hope everyone else had good weekends.

Congrats on the kills. Nice spread on the 7pt. Muzzleloaders can be fun.. I love my muzzleloader.. CVA Optima Pro/Nikon Omega with BDC reticle, shooting TC Shockwave 250g with 100g pyrodex powder. I can get 1" groups at 100 yrds.. I don't like shooting anything over 100 but I would feel comfy shooting 250yrds. So don't hold back, give it a shot, you might be surprised.

Nice Buck Crow!!

Nice buck. Congrats!

congrats

congrats

Nice buck Crow!

Nice buck and great work on the coyote!

Nice work, Crow. My opening day got squashed but I'm glad to see that somebody's getting r done. I smell jerky.

Interesting how the left main beam of your deer crooks down out toward the tip....I like antler uniqueness......congrats....on both animals....!!