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<blockquote data-quote="Tnwhip" data-source="post: 587775" data-attributes="member: 32195"><p>My luckyest shot was a long time ago. I was down at the farm praticeing my quick draw. Not really quick, just quickly pulling the six shooter out of the </p><p>holster and shooting cans. Making sure I did not shoot myself in the leg or foot LOL <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />. Anyway, I was doing pretty good. I was hitting about 80%. I had just shot my last round in the chamber and hit a can dead center. I looked at my black lab and said to her. I am a natural born gun fighter and laughed. I reloaded and had just put the pistol back in the holster and I looked over my left shoulder and there was a crow flying away from me at a 45 degree angle about 75 yards away. I wheeled around and drew and fired from the hip and to my surprise he folded and hit the ground. I looked at my Lab and said to her. Nobody will believe me but you saw it. Natural born gun fighter. LOL <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />. Fetch. She went and brought it back and the bullet went right under the wing. </p><p> </p><p>My best shot was elk hunting about 10 years ago in Utah. My firends Aram and Joseph VonBenedikt, Who is now the editor of Shooting time's magazine had invited me out to their ranch to hunt during the muzzleloading season. I was lucky enough to get drawn that year for a cow elk and a mule deer. I am a traditional muzzleloader shooter. We even dress the part. I shoot a custom 54cal flintlock long rifle 42" barrel. We loaded up the horses and went up in the mountains. On the way up, we passed 3 hunters on snowmobiles with inlines muzzleloaders. They looked at us kinda funny, we did look like we were out of the movie Jeremiah Johnson. One of them looked at my rifle ask you going to shoot an elk with that I just said yep and rode on. later we found a herd of elk down in a valley. I got off the horse and went down the mountain after them. I was sneaking down the draw and saw a cow about 100 yards in the thick scrub oak. I found an opening and laying down over a log and took carefull aim and shot. At the shot she took off. I reloaded and I eased up to where she was and nothing no hair or blood. Looking around, I had hit a limb and my round ball had got deflected. I took off running the way she went. As I topped a small hill there were 6 to 8 cattle, they took off running beside me. Like running with the bulls in Spain. When we topped the next hill I saw the elk herd. They were down in a draw that had a narrow path that they were trying to get through. They had a trafic jam and could only go up single file. The scrub oak was thick but there was a 10 yard opening that they had to pass through. I sat down, got ready for the shot . It was 175 yards down hill . I picked out the biggest cow and when she went through I put the sight on her nose and squeezed the trigger. At the shot she rolled like the elk on Last of the Mohicans. Joseph and Aram was watching up on the mountains. They said it was something to see. They saw the smoke come out of the gun barrel, then the elk tumbled, then they heard the shot. The 230g round ball with 120g of 3f black powder, went through the top of the shoulders clipped the under side of the spine and stopped under the hide on the far side. Another firend was helping Packing the meat out the next day and ran into the guys on the snowmobiles. They could not believe it. I can't find the picture of the elk right now but I here is the picture of the mule deer I shot at 90 yards.</p><p><img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i274/tnwhip/Hunting/100_0568.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tnwhip, post: 587775, member: 32195"] My luckyest shot was a long time ago. I was down at the farm praticeing my quick draw. Not really quick, just quickly pulling the six shooter out of the holster and shooting cans. Making sure I did not shoot myself in the leg or foot LOL :D. Anyway, I was doing pretty good. I was hitting about 80%. I had just shot my last round in the chamber and hit a can dead center. I looked at my black lab and said to her. I am a natural born gun fighter and laughed. I reloaded and had just put the pistol back in the holster and I looked over my left shoulder and there was a crow flying away from me at a 45 degree angle about 75 yards away. I wheeled around and drew and fired from the hip and to my surprise he folded and hit the ground. I looked at my Lab and said to her. Nobody will believe me but you saw it. Natural born gun fighter. LOL :D. Fetch. She went and brought it back and the bullet went right under the wing. My best shot was elk hunting about 10 years ago in Utah. My firends Aram and Joseph VonBenedikt, Who is now the editor of Shooting time's magazine had invited me out to their ranch to hunt during the muzzleloading season. I was lucky enough to get drawn that year for a cow elk and a mule deer. I am a traditional muzzleloader shooter. We even dress the part. I shoot a custom 54cal flintlock long rifle 42" barrel. We loaded up the horses and went up in the mountains. On the way up, we passed 3 hunters on snowmobiles with inlines muzzleloaders. They looked at us kinda funny, we did look like we were out of the movie Jeremiah Johnson. One of them looked at my rifle ask you going to shoot an elk with that I just said yep and rode on. later we found a herd of elk down in a valley. I got off the horse and went down the mountain after them. I was sneaking down the draw and saw a cow about 100 yards in the thick scrub oak. I found an opening and laying down over a log and took carefull aim and shot. At the shot she took off. I reloaded and I eased up to where she was and nothing no hair or blood. Looking around, I had hit a limb and my round ball had got deflected. I took off running the way she went. As I topped a small hill there were 6 to 8 cattle, they took off running beside me. Like running with the bulls in Spain. When we topped the next hill I saw the elk herd. They were down in a draw that had a narrow path that they were trying to get through. They had a trafic jam and could only go up single file. The scrub oak was thick but there was a 10 yard opening that they had to pass through. I sat down, got ready for the shot . It was 175 yards down hill . I picked out the biggest cow and when she went through I put the sight on her nose and squeezed the trigger. At the shot she rolled like the elk on Last of the Mohicans. Joseph and Aram was watching up on the mountains. They said it was something to see. They saw the smoke come out of the gun barrel, then the elk tumbled, then they heard the shot. The 230g round ball with 120g of 3f black powder, went through the top of the shoulders clipped the under side of the spine and stopped under the hide on the far side. Another firend was helping Packing the meat out the next day and ran into the guys on the snowmobiles. They could not believe it. I can't find the picture of the elk right now but I here is the picture of the mule deer I shot at 90 yards. [IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i274/tnwhip/Hunting/100_0568.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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