Tomorrow is opening day for S. Ontario muzzler loader only deer hunt. Who's going to be out there and what are you using for a rifle? I'll be out there bright and early with my flintlock .50 Great Plains Rifle.
Southern Ontario Muzzleloader Deer Hunt
- Thread starter savage112
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Tomorrow is opening day for S. Ontario muzzler loader only deer hunt. Who's going to be out there and what are you using for a rifle? I'll be out there bright and early with my flintlock .50 Great Plains Rifle.
Is this a controlled hunt??
Or only in your part of Southern Ontario.
Here it doesn't start till dec 8 i think it is.
I'm zone 80 and it starts November 30th, just back from scouting this morning, I have seen lots of deer this year, more than last, still need some snow to knock down some of the growth on my property or it will be hard seeing on the ground. I will be using my traditions Yukon. Would love to try a flintlock sometime.
LuckyLuc82
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Rockwood, Ontario
does anyone know where I can get one of those norinco $99 muzzleloaders?
Our season here starts Nov 30th
I'll be using a Camo CVA Optima Pro topped with a Camo Bushnell 250DOA BDC scope....as for my load I am using a 270gr platnium powerbelt bullet infront of 2x50gr T7 pellets and a REM cleanbore 209 primer.
Good luck everyone!
I'll be using a Camo CVA Optima Pro topped with a Camo Bushnell 250DOA BDC scope....as for my load I am using a 270gr platnium powerbelt bullet infront of 2x50gr T7 pellets and a REM cleanbore 209 primer.
Good luck everyone!
I will be out in WMU 91B. I have permission for four different properties,all with lots of bush on them. I just bought a new digital camera yesterday, so I hope I have it figured out before tomorrow.Anyway,I'm rarin' to go, so I hope the weather stays dry for the flintlock.
Mine starts on Nov 30th. I will be using the Elmer Fudd special...T/C Encore Pro Hunter with a Vortex 2.5-10X50 V-Brite, 100 grains T7, win 209, 300 grain Hornady XTP. This combo is producing 1.5" at 100 yards.
Yep - just got back from 92C - same - deer in it before first light and didn't want to leave it either until dusk or later. They started moving in the corn each day with about 20 minutes of legal light left. We could hear bucks sparing in the corn.
I didn't see a deer all week. But my son about a 100yds from me got a nice doe sneaking back for the corn with my Savage ML (SR4759, 45cal 300gr XTPs mags and crushed rib sabots). With about only 10 minutes of legal light he shot it perfectly just behind the shouder. He shot across a small ravine as it crossed a wooded ridge about 55yds off. The deer went about 15yds. Next day I took these pics of the minimal shooting lanes he had to the opposite ridge. Also his bullet clipped a small limb about 2ft out
You can see the entrance directly behind the shoulder (not the blood stain on the shoulder). On the edge of dark he made a pretty good shot I think. The gun was wearing an old 6x steel Weaver with a command post reticle. 
NEF Huntsman SS, T7 loose, 250 SST, .25acp conversion with Win small rifle primers, custom Hubbard solid brass ramrod, and a Leupold 4x33...
Our season doesn't open here until the 30th.
Wow
I have a huntsman with an acp conversion, and a hubbards rod as well.
I am surprised you are not using PR Bullets sabots as well. I used the 200g Dead centers on a deer This year. I have never seen a bullet do as much damage to internal organs like that in my life. They are the best sabots in the world. I use 110g T7 loose and I can easily shoot 1.5" 100 yard groups. Groups around 4" at 200 yards.
maka
madtrapper143
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Steep Rock Lake NWO
Funny the hunt is black powder only and most of the guns used out perform the traditional .30-30 and .35 Remington deer favourites of old. So much for the logic of limted range firearms and safety argument in populated areas.... Seems technology has surpassed some of our antiquated laws.
just rambling thoughts, Darryl
just rambling thoughts, Darryl
I think differently - my levers in 30-30 and 35Rem are superior by far IMO.
Actually "most of the guns used" shoot ballistically inferior pistol bullets at very often around 1400 to 1800fps when actually chronographed which I've done. I use HP pistol bullets in my muzzleloaders intentionally in the south. I use 300s and some of my buddies use 250s which lose speed even sooner. They all slow quickly and drop like boulders out past 200 even if driven out at 2200 from a Savage - past 130yds if fired at 1650 (the 100gr-777 load I used this year in my Knight). The SSTs and such are only slightly better I think. But they all hit fairly authoritatively on deer within there intended range and of course I still shoot only in safe directions.
Also it's still only one shot and then pause to reload. Two or three deer run up and only one gets shot - usually - in my experience anyway reloading my muzzleloader. Not so with a repeater. Also no banging away at a running deer either - which wouldn't be good in a populated area and open fields.
While a few gurus can extend the reach of their frontloaders somewhat through specialized loads using SSTs and even duplex sabots and PR Dead center bullets (I've also actually tested 35Rem 200grRemSP_CLs in my muzzleloader too BTW), I still am sure that the situation is alot safer than if we all had our repeaters for the deer hunt. I wouldn't like to be around for anything like that - although fine in the sparsely populated wilderness areas. I hunt both ways.
But I understand your basic observation - "shotguns only" season may have a few similarities here too - with rifled bores and saboted wonder points available for the few who care to perfect their ultimate possibilities. Again slugs are generally ballistically inferior flyers though these improvements better them somewhat. Still safer leaving it as is IMO - for the deer hunt anyway.
Just my 2cents,
