Shovelbuck
Active Member
Right now guy's I'm still grinning like a Possum in a trash can!
A lot of you have followed my posts about the flintlock pistol I acquired and rebuilt back in August.
Well, today the old girl made meat. This morning was opening day of a new antlerless season Nebraska is trying this year. My son and I hunted the morning with nothing seen. We headed back this afternoon and I headed over to where I shot all my turkeys in the spring. At around sundown this gal gave me a 5 yard shot, close enough I thought I might light her on fire! The 250 grain slug folded her where she stood.
As a side note.....I don't think I mentioned in the other posts about the previous owner of the pistol. He built the pistol in 1982 planning to hunt deer with it. Unfortunately, it's always been against the rules to use a muzzleloading pistol until this year. The previous owner passed away this spring having never been able to deer hunt with it. It's ironic that there is a memorial next weekend for him where we are shooting his ashes out across the Loup river. I'll be there with his gun for the ceremony, and it's now completed what he wanted it to do.
A lot of you have followed my posts about the flintlock pistol I acquired and rebuilt back in August. Well, today the old girl made meat. This morning was opening day of a new antlerless season Nebraska is trying this year. My son and I hunted the morning with nothing seen. We headed back this afternoon and I headed over to where I shot all my turkeys in the spring. At around sundown this gal gave me a 5 yard shot, close enough I thought I might light her on fire!
The 250 grain slug folded her where she stood.As a side note.....I don't think I mentioned in the other posts about the previous owner of the pistol. He built the pistol in 1982 planning to hunt deer with it. Unfortunately, it's always been against the rules to use a muzzleloading pistol until this year. The previous owner passed away this spring having never been able to deer hunt with it. It's ironic that there is a memorial next weekend for him where we are shooting his ashes out across the Loup river. I'll be there with his gun for the ceremony, and it's now completed what he wanted it to do.
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