View attachment 7004 Got to make the most of the last few minutes of our final day of muzzleloader season in Ohio on a full grown doe. My wife was using the Optima, so I pulled out my old Traditions Buckhunter (bought new around 2000, but hadn’t used for the last 10+ years until I put a BH209 plug conversion kit on it last year just for this situation - the 4 days a year that my wife and I are both carrying a muzzleloader). It’s not much to look at, and not exactly a tack driver, but I have full confidence in it to at least 100 yards. Using a .452 300 gr XTP in a Harvester black crush rib sabot, over 90 gr of BH209 with a CCI209M primer. It’s not too difficult when they stand broadside at 25 yards! But she did show up where I absolutely didn’t expect, so had to go left handed. It pays to practice those things ahead of time!! Double lung pass though, breaking 2 ribs going in as well as coming out. Left a HEAVY blood trail from impact to where she fell 45 yards away. Still a month of archery season left, but that puts a wrap on my deer season with punching my last tag.
Got to make the most of the last few minutes of our final day of muzzleloader season in Ohio on a full grown doe. My wife was using the Optima, so I pulled out my old Traditions Buckhunter (bought new around 2000, but hadn’t used for the last 10+ years until I put a BH209 plug conversion kit on it last year just for this situation - the 4 days a year that my wife and I are both carrying a muzzleloader). It’s not much to look at, and not exactly a tack driver, but I have full confidence in it to at least 100 yards. Using a .452 300 gr XTP in a Harvester black crush rib sabot, over 90 gr of BH209 with a CCI209M primer. It’s not too difficult when they stand broadside at 25 yards! But she did show up where I absolutely didn’t expect, so had to go left handed. It pays to practice those things ahead of time!! Double lung pass though, breaking 2 ribs going in as well as coming out. Left a HEAVY blood trail from impact to where she fell 45 yards away. Still a month of archery season left, but that puts a wrap on my deer season with punching my last tag.
