Season ( Flintlock only) ended here Saturday with plunging temps and wind howling but I was warm and cozy inside having filled my tag just before dark the evening before the front howled in with rain, wind and ice.... I shot a young doe that was nice and fat... took her about 70 yds with my RMC Accusporter flintlock in .50 cal with a 1:28 twist... used a home cast 460 gr plains style bullet from a mountain mold, wrapped with 2 layers of #9 onion skin paper and sized to .500... she was getting ready to "leave Dodge" and I took a frontal shot...she went about 30 yds, but left a trail that Helen Keller could have followed... didn't perform complete autopsy as it began to rain as dark set in... took her home, rinsed her out and hung her high in a walnut tree in the back yard...TIP FROM "themoose", you might want to rethink hanging a deer high in a tree when a winter storm is due to hit... made it an interesting project the next day getting her down to hang in the garage...
So that was the end of my 2017-18 deer season in PA... the beginning was the other end of ML's.... took a very big doe at measured 168 yds using a Knight Disc rifle with 209 primer conversion from Lehigh and topped with a 10X SWFSA Super Sniper scope with Mil-Mil mildot reticle, used range finder and Strelok ballistic program on my cellphone... bullet was home cast 11mm(43 Spanish RCBS) cast from pure lead @407grs(paper patched with 2 wraps of #9 onion skin and sized to .446)... used 80gr Triple 7 over home cut hard felt wad. I couldn't see the bullet impact due to the smoke, but heard the loudest "whack" of any deer I ever hit... she went less than 20 yds... Somewhere I had pictures of each, but I am not a computer person at all, in fact we used papyrus when I was in grade school.
The scope on the inline sounds like a lot, but I love the way I can use mildot system to hit targets from 10yds out to 200 with complete confidence if I do my part... I'm sure it will be accurate beyond that, but I put a self-imposed 200 yd limit considering the terminal ballistics and rainbow trajectory.
It definitely wasn't a ML, but I also took a doe in archery season using a Excalibur crossbow...
Kindest regards,
themoose
So that was the end of my 2017-18 deer season in PA... the beginning was the other end of ML's.... took a very big doe at measured 168 yds using a Knight Disc rifle with 209 primer conversion from Lehigh and topped with a 10X SWFSA Super Sniper scope with Mil-Mil mildot reticle, used range finder and Strelok ballistic program on my cellphone... bullet was home cast 11mm(43 Spanish RCBS) cast from pure lead @407grs(paper patched with 2 wraps of #9 onion skin and sized to .446)... used 80gr Triple 7 over home cut hard felt wad. I couldn't see the bullet impact due to the smoke, but heard the loudest "whack" of any deer I ever hit... she went less than 20 yds... Somewhere I had pictures of each, but I am not a computer person at all, in fact we used papyrus when I was in grade school.
The scope on the inline sounds like a lot, but I love the way I can use mildot system to hit targets from 10yds out to 200 with complete confidence if I do my part... I'm sure it will be accurate beyond that, but I put a self-imposed 200 yd limit considering the terminal ballistics and rainbow trajectory.
It definitely wasn't a ML, but I also took a doe in archery season using a Excalibur crossbow...
Kindest regards,
themoose