First Smokeless Muzzleloader Kill

[Raider62]

This past Saturday was the opener for Iowa's first regular gun season. I went out and sat on my family's farm with a farm tag and just before dusk this guy stepped out following some does. I took the shot at 225 yards as he wasn't getting any closer and it was getting dark. It was a poor shot on my part. I hit him in the throat just barely catching his windpipe. A short tracking job produced this old guy. Gun was a CVA Scout V2 45-70 converted by Luke with his ASG LRMP breech plug. Load was 275 Parker BE pushed by 60 grains of IMR 4198.

[BuckDoeHunter]

Congrats! Nice Buck

[rambler]

Glad you got him. Congrats

[sw]

Quite a deer! Glad you got him.

[mrbuck]

Good shot !

[cvadave]

Nice going.

[jims]

nice deer

[smokepolehall]

Mighty fine tick toter you popped, congrats

[nyhunter]

Congratulations on a fine buck.

225 yards is a good poke in the woods, always a little harder to make the shot in the field versus off the shooting bench.

Displays great character on your part that your willing to own up on that shot.

Keep up the good work ,just like anything the more you practice the better you get at it.