Last chance for deer

[Harold Pickens]

Thank God it's pouring down rain this morning--Jeremy didnt want to hunt in it--me either, but I would have gone out with him to do some mini-drives. He has never used a muzzle loader, so I was going along and was going to teach him how to load it--not much to it with these modern in-lines, Triple 7 pellets, and sabot pistol bullets. Dam guns are accurate. I dont like mine much, but I've shot at 12 deer with it and made 11 , 1 shot kills, I usually pull the trigger on it once a year, so cant justify another. Hey wait, maybe give that gun to jeremy, and buy myself another, brilliant!

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Thank God it's pouring down rain this morning--Jeremy didnt want to hunt in it--me either, but I would have gone out with him to do some mini-drives. He has never used a muzzle loader, so I was going along and was going to teach him how to load it--not much to it with these modern in-lines, Triple 7 pellets, and sabot pistol bullets. Dam guns are accurate. I dont like mine much, but I've shot at 12 deer with it and made 11 , 1 shot kills, I usually pull the trigger on it once a year, so cant justify another. Hey wait, maybe give that gun to jeremy, and buy myself another, brilliant!

When we first bought our farm, out in the boonies of Putnam Co., MO, I ran into another deer hunter that lived in a double-wide not far down the dirt road from our farm. One day as I was driving out, he flagged me down and insisted that I come in his little shack that he called a shop. He was so proud to show me the muzzleloader he was working on, a new invention of his -- an in-line muzzle loader. His name was Tony Knight and this little unassuming gentleman did quite well for himself. I got to know Tony pretty well and we hunted the same great deer cover many years. He's been dead some years now, but I don't drive past his little trailer and not think of that day. In many ways his example defines the America that I grew up in and love.

Harold, you've inspired me to get my muzzleloader out and go a day or two in the last days of our season. Will you help me drag it out, though...that's the question?