Pic. Tuesdat....9:30 am, one shot and he dropped like a rock!

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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He's no monster, just a small 3X3. I have yet to see a really big buck this muzzleloader season. This boy was neck shot at 30 yards with the old 1830's .65 cal. smoothbore. No meat wasted with this buck. The doe he was with was dump-founded when he dropped 10 feet from him.



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Judy came home at 9:30 from her morning run with the school bus and told me she saw a dow and a buck heading into the woods at the far end of the lower food plot, so I loaded uo the old percussion smoothbore, grabbed my shooting bag and put a sneak on them. I waited behind an oak until they started to pass by me when I gave him a grunt, it was the last thing he heard.
More meat fer the winter!!

Dave
 
Good job buddy.

You know the old saying....you can't eat horns, so who needs a monster?

How old would you say he is? I wish I could put the sneak on some of the whitetails that roam my neighborhood.

-D
 
Dave, Very nice!! I (we) broke tradition this year by not shooting a single deer until the third day of the season after I had left. No wories though I got a pity deer from a Wisc freind who has to earn a buck. Dandy little button, four hours from swinging to freezer. Maybe get another pity one before the end of their season. Sometimes you get the bear (deer) and sometimes well you know the rest.
Shiny side up,
Wicker T, Walker & Charlie Brown the round headed kid
 
Nice buck. You have to make some meat with winter setting in. That deer should be proud to have been taken with such a fine old gun.
Got any more pictures of the gun?

Tim
 
Looking good Dave, and a great shot to boot.


Lance "Ray" Raymore


PS - I might be swinging through your neck of the woods soon since the other parts of the family are concentrating in Lakeview this winter.
 
Dave! Nice lookin dinner!!!! When's he gettin cooked up? yummmmmmmmmmmmy loins for breakfast? I might could be there in ....oh .....about 8 hours :) lemme see if I can get my transporter going.

oh and on another note...I applied for another job that I am pretty sure I have very little chance of getting but who knows...anyway it's in Grants Pass with BLM working doing some sort of management type work.We'll see how it goes :)
 
The real answer to that is.....WE ALL DO! :^)

The little fellow could not hold a candle for that big 4x4 I was luckey enough to B.P. with my .50 flint Plains Rifle last year. Infact this buck is probably 3+ years old and needed to be taken out of the local gene pool because he's a runt that would never amount to anything and those type of genes don't need to be passed along. This guy was barely bigger than the doe he was with. We have a few forked horns that need to be removed too because they are so small that you could gut'em and carry them under your arm! They will never do anything but eventuually pass on their "Tiny Tim" genes to our does. It's all part of the deer management on the place. But this one will eat good!

Is Woodrow still due out here near the end of the season? My local wood ducks have been asking about him again.

Dave
 
You know Wicker, some of the best tasting deer I ever ate were pity deer backstraps with corn on the cob from the same neighbors garden. Never found anything wrong with a freezer full of good pity deer!

Glad ya made meat, even by proxy :^)

Stay warm, it's getting cold your way.

Dave
 
This was the same smoothbore I took my black bear with on Nov. 1st. I don't have any other photo's of the gun. It's an Englisg percusion Fowler made in the 1830's and is pretty close to being a 16 ga. The gun happens to fit me very well and I just plain like it! So, I installed a very small front and rear sight that does not interfere whne the gun is used with shot.

I found a .648 round ball mould awhile back and with a .010 thick patch it has a good easy to load snug fir atop the 85 grs. of 3F black powder. I can keep the patched ball within a 5 inch roup at 55 yards. So, a good steady shot at a deer's neck at 30 yards is not much of a problem. My shot this morning was an inch low of where I was aiming. But with a neck shot that close to the deer's spine they will drop liek a rock everytime. If possible I have always tried to make neck shots and woth a muzzleloader like this one you have to be as close as you can.

Dave
 
Hi Lance,

It will be about 28 degrees here by morning, so I have the buck hanging up in a tree here by the house tonight (infact I just went out to check on it and there was a big doe under it sniffing at it. (maybe the ex-wife?) So, the back straps will wait for now.

Let me know if and when you are heading down to Lakeview.

Dave
 
Dinner is right, about all these "runts" will do is feed a hungry group of maybe 3. I hope you get the BLM job in GP, you have been hardon thos epoor Florida Woodie's so far this season and they could use a break :^)

It snowed all around us the past couple of days, but only a little bit here on the place. It was snowing lightly when I shot the buck this morning, but it was melting when it hit teh ground. It's supposed to clear up for a cpuple of days and I need to get seed into my food plots asap.

Best,

Dave
 
he sure is. He just called yesterday from Rocky's house and said he's having a blast and can't wait for his southern tour and finishing the season in Oregon. You'll have plenty of time to introduce him to his tasty little friends.

-D
 
I've always wanted to try a neck shot but not really sure exactly were to aim. By your pic I've got a pretty good Idea now. Our weather has been in the upper 60's here in mid Missouri, no luck with deer movement. On a 2500 acre cattle farm only two does have been shot so far. Temps are dropping like a rock today with a chance for 1-2 inches of snow over night and highs in the 30's-40's through the weekend, hopefully get the deer moving.


Enjoy that backstrap:)

Kyle
 
I'd drop like a rock from a 65, too. You can see daylight thru 'bout everything you bagged this year, eh? I'll take a full freezer over a hat rack most any day.

We're looking at minus 10 er so tonight.
 
Great shot Dave! The neck is definately a great place to drop them...after the smoke cleared I'll bet he was flat as a flounder.

When I lived in the UP I knew some old Yoopers that would use .243's and other smaller rifle bores and shoot the deer right behind the ear to save the meat. Man did those deer drop fast. That buck I shot with my bow dropped in his tracks when I bow shot him at the base of the neck. His "sweet spot" wasn't doable because of a tree branch. You can imagine the damage a mechnical broadhead did when it passed by the windpipe and spine. UGLY.

I've had blacktail from Kodiak quite a few times but never plain old muley. I assume since he eats acorns and alfalfa that he tastes like a whitetail in those parts?
 
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