[Tracy Pellett]

Tom, I believe Mr Rutledge shot many bucks but did not kill a really trophy till he was middle age . In An American Hunter published in 1937 he has a story “ Hunting with Half a Gun “ his firing pen breaks and he kills a buck with the second barrel and the second day he kills another buck with his one barrel gun . He is about to kill his 101st buck with his old fusee when the firing pin broke but he got it with the second barrel . “Yet I had no reason to complain, for that pin had never failed me in thirty years of pretty constant shooting.”