First Muzzleloader Whitetail

thedanielm

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Well, just harvested my first whitetail in muzzleloader season yesterday! Its my first time in ML season. It's really nice to get out there when it isn't so cold and the deer aren't nearly as spooked as during rifle season; they just haven't been chased across the countryside by every guy with a rifle and a truck :p

Anyway, I took a decent sized doe. I had a doe tag cuz last season I waited too long for the right buck and ended up with an empty freezer. Now I get to search for the perfect buck and not feel obligated to harvest.

I picked up a cheap traditions XLT this fall, I've been shooting 300gr hornady xtp's behind 2 50gr pyrodex pellets. Took the doe at about 25 yards in a field, I was sitting in a bluff of willows waiting. at that range the xtp sure did a number on her shoulder, we found fragments that actually deflected, exited and re-entered in the hind quarter. That load knocked her flat on her ass. ran 0 yards.

anyway, it was a good clean kill and now a hungry university student gets cheap meat!
 
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Congrats

I got into BP hunting in good old sask 20 years ago and never looked back. When its 20 below I can look at all those orange suits running around knowing my tags are filled. If I'm bored I go push bush for those friends who have not yet converted. Love my rifles but I hate hunting in the cold.:D
 
Congrats on the kill thedanielm

Were you hunting SMZ?

I thought about ML as well because they are practically giving the tags away for that zone but too much posted land in my opinion. I shake hands with as many landowners as I can but time adds up.

Ron R
 
Ahh, nope not in SMZ. I go to school in saskatoon but go home for hunting, zone 48 around preeceville. I also do some hunting in zone 56 and 39.


btw: anyone have any favorite whitetail recipies and good places to get sausage made in saskatoon?
 
PFRA pastures

Try the Montrose PFRA pasture south of Delise. It was open to everyone last time I hunted those parts( lots of deer too) . No need to brown nose landowners. All my old haunts are being posted to death because of tree huggers and A*** holes that wreck things for all of us. I only go on crown land now. Finally got sick of the BS and there are a lot of deer in the forest fringe.
 
Congrats on your first ml kill.:dancingbanana: I sighted in my ml as well as my high power this morning.A total of 5 shots.3 with the ml and 2 with the 30.06.
Hopefully I am fortunate enough to harvest a couple of jumpers this up and coming hunting season.:)
 
plus one on the B.S.

A couple of years ago I got antlerless muley in 29e because A) it was over the counter and B) 2 deer per license. It's worked well as a primer to whitetail and be damn'd if I didn't develope a taste for the buggers. The traffic has increased because of that and owners are not as friendly.

I have got a co-worker who's farm is on this side of Yorkton from Saskatoon I went with him there last year for whites. Good action for the close of season. He too is tired of the B.S. and would rather just drive home 3 hrs instead.

I'd like to get a couple of does for freezer, but I just haven't decided where.

In terms of sausage, we make our own. I used to know a few guys but they aren't around anymore.

Regards
Ron R
 
Glad to see a "starving student" ;) get his freezer filled, or at least started. I got going on the muzzleloader nearly 20 years ago. It was more of a novelty then, but it seems like every hunter in town owns one now. The nice weather is a major plus.
Dogleg
 
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