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Our ML season starts Saturday.
I’ll take my GM54-120 in the hardwoods in the mornings and the Knight 40 over a field in the PM.
Best of luck to everyone.
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Pretty basic here.

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I trust both of these guns 100%. V2 Accura with 77 weighed grains of 209 powder under a black Harvester sabot and a 250 grain XPB Barnes. Optima pistol shooting 63 weighed grains of 209 powder under a green Harvester and 225 grain XPB Barnes. Both fired by Winchester shotshell primers. Zero leakage. The V2 is under an inch at 100 yards, the pistol under an inch at 50 yards.

Our season begins on Saturday of this up coming weekend and the pistol will go up the mountain with me as its going to be a short morning hunt, then off to my Grand daughter's wedding. The rest of the week will find me on stand every day. Or until my two tags are filled.
 
Still not sure about the firearms season that starts Saturday... Either the Encore/Brux .45 or it might be time to dig out the ole faithful Omega. ML season that starts after thanksgiving with be the Optima pistol.
 
I’m probably done muzzleloader hunting for this season, but last week in OK, I carried my TC Hawken Cougar 50 with a Green Mountain barrel on a couple hunts that would have short range shots and my Knight DISC 50 topped with a Zeiss Conquest 4.5-14 for hunting longer range stands.
 
Well I only have one up and running and I didn't draw any tags for ML or regular seasons. But I did pull a late season cow tag, and its an area with tight lanes of travel thru the willows...so I will pack my Knight D.I.S.C. with No Excuses conicals. I am really looking forward to December.
 
I'm going with Accura v2 w/ 77grn weighed bh209 and a 250 barnes tmz bt in a harvester yellow crush rib in front of a cci 209 magnum. Nikon inline xr 3x9x40. But I always keep the v2 pistol close w/ 62grn weighed bh209 and a 200grn pure lead .451 hollow point riding a black harvester shorty sabot also in front of the cci magnum. Nikon 2 moa red dot on the factory durasight base. The vs pistol will shoot a 10 shot string in a 2inch group on paper at 60 yards but I haven't had a chance to try her out on a deer. Antlerless season is in a few weeks and I have a few old food plot resident does that are probably going to be test subjects....
 
Pretty basic here.

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I trust both of these guns 100%. V2 Accura with 77 weighed grains of 209 powder under a black Harvester sabot and a 250 grain XPB Barnes. Optima pistol shooting 63 weighed grains of 209 powder under a green Harvester and 225 grain XPB Barnes. Both fired by Winchester shotshell primers. Zero leakage. The V2 is under an inch at 100 yards, the pistol under an inch at 50 yards.

Our season begins on Saturday of this up coming weekend and the pistol will go up the mountain with me as its going to be a short morning hunt, then off to my Grand daughter's wedding. The rest of the week will find me on stand every day. Or until my two tags are filled.
We could switch possibles bags on accident and I think we would both still be on target! We shoot nearly identical loads from nearly identical weapons!
 
No kidding. I've really grown to like those XPBs from Barnes for deer here. Deer do not like them one bit.

The temps here are going to be higher than I like, mid 50's lower 60's, this weekend. And with that wedding on Saturday afternoon if I shoot something on that morning I'll be buying a lot of ice to fill the cavity with it after a quick hide removal. IF I get something that morning I'll be processing Sunday instead of hunting. I'm really tired of this year's extended heat and fickle frigging weather. I have all of my orange hanging on the line outside what with the nice breeze and near blue-bird sky. They'll hang every day there is no rain until the season starts. It sounds like maybe short sleeve hunting on the opener weekend.
 
OK deer gun season starts on 21 November. ill take both a scoped inline rifle (probably a .54 Fire Hawk or the Encore), and a .50, .54 or. 58 caliber sidelock in the truck. At the hunting area i'll grab one or the other. For sure i'll take a sidelock onto the tree stands which overlook brushy trails. Shooting deer from above gives another definition to "bang flop".

Got consolation prize in OK muzzleloader season-two juvenile hogs. Both were killed with my my .54 caliber Fire Hawk.
 
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Probably start with the ultra lite and switch over to my chopped 52, I’m hunting in thick woods this year , that shorter 52 should work out
 
Marlin MLS-54 with Barnes MZ bullets over 100 grain equivalent of Triple 7 FFFg for the early (antlerless) season. Then switching over to my .50 Early Virginia TVM flintlock for bucks.

ADK Bigfoot
 
White Super 91, .451. 70 grns. T7, 3f, cast lead 345 "I" bullet.
 

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