First day of the VA gun season was last Saturday . I went out that AM with the old Parker hammer gun loaded with tweleve 0 Buck pellets in a SP-10 wad with six 9mm cases full of Winchester Grex buffer all over top 30 grains of SR7625 and set off with a WIN 209 primer . I also had with me in case the deer didn't get close a Remington 700BDL I had rebarreled to 6.5-06 last year and that one had handloaded Nosler 130 AccuBonds .
In the AM I saw two bucks I could not get a bullet to even though they were no more then 50 yards a way .
Went back out around 14:00 and carried the samne battery . Long about 16:30 I had what I thought were two doe coming towards me . The smaller one walked towards the scent candle I had out and was going to pass me at 15 yards . So when it got there I let fly and it went 10-15 yards and rolled up . That was with the right barrel , I quickly turned and fired at the larger doe with the left barrel at a lasered 26 yards . At the boom of the gun she dropped like a sack of potatoes .
Turned out the smaller one was a button and the doe was piebald .
I wanna get a roundball load worked out for this gun . Seems Track of the Wolf markets a bag mold for a .760" roundball . Might just give that one a shot it should work in a SP-10 in this gun and patched in my muzzle loader 10 gauge SxS !
http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Catego...2/MOLD-BAG-760
There were a number of firsts on this day for me !
First deer with this gun .
First time I ever took a double with buckshot .
First time I ever took a piebald .
Parker Grade 2 hammer 10 gauge circa 1884
Threaded Mode