Another Deer

[peternap]

Another Deer yesterday. I thought this was a Doe but it turned out to be a button buck.

I'm not including the Kill shot but as usual, after getting hit with my .58, it jumped once and was dead before landing in the water.

[PEG688]

Pretty hard to see them! How far away where you?

[peternap]

Pretty hard to see them! How far away where you?

Not far, 200 yards where it crossed and about 125 where I shot it.

I shot it on that point that juts out in the water.

[Huge29]

.58?! Blackpowder?  I have never heard of it, you must make your own balls? 

[peternap]

.58?! Blackpowder?  I have never heard of it, you must make your own balls?

I do but you can buy them also. I have a .72 I built too but its a 50 yard gun. Somehow modern people think the world revolves around .50. It never did. The standard in the east was .40 and 50 was what the mountain men used because of Grizzlies. The fact is, .50 was a light weight compared to the Jager rifle that the Hawken was taken from. Europeans liked BIG calibers for the same reason I do. They flat work better and I don't mind the extra weight.

When I shoot something, two things happen.

1. I hit it
2. It falls down.