Flintlock. Who's going?

Tomorrow starts one of my favorite seasons. Out traditional flintlock season. My Firestorm is cleaned and ready to go. I won't get out till Saturday. Plan on hitting a farm game cooperative property in 2A. Usually a god bit of pressure from a lease next door that moves the deer around. Doesn't look like any snow in these parts and hopefully any rain stays away. 
 
Who else is picking up the smokepole for some fun late season hunting? 

🎅I asked Santa for a Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model flintlock and he said NO, cause I might shoot my eye out.😢

Got my renegade ready also. Did a quick walk about this morning and there seems to be a few possible victims in my hunt area.

Saturdays weather looks good for most of Pa. No snow, but at least dry and chilly. I plan an all day sneak and sit adventure. 

Dja ever sit back and wonder how many saw you ???  lol

Hunting Saturday till noon 0 deer. Hunted till it started raining around 10:15 today 0 deer. Did see something interesting three squirrels came out of a den tree,two where grays and one was jet black with a white throat. Haven't seen that since many years hunting up in the big woods.

Did a combo hunt today.... daylight till 11:00 flintlock in Pa. 0 deer zero everything. 3:00 PM till 5:30 Ohio X bow 0 deer zero everything. Nice day but I saw nothing and I mean nothing.

Yesterday I watched the day come alive listening to turkeys on the roost, saw a very nice sunrise until the fog rolled in, saw 7 doe and a small buck but couldn’t get any shots. The turkeys eventually flew down and fed up past me. I counted 98 give or take a couple crossing the gas line my stand is on. The afternoon hunt was uneventful as I only saw an archery hunter and a few (30 or so) turkeys.

Great stories guys, keep-em comin'. Always a good time being afield or on stream, through the the eyes of good sportsman. 🍻

Sad part of the later seasons is the fact that the fetuses in the pregnant Does are more developed every day & is very unsettling to see. I know that it doesn't really matter when the Doe is shot , but I don't like to see it & would advise anyone that has a youngster with them to either explain it before time or don't dwell on it when the time comes. On the other hand it is more exciting to hunt on snow with a muzzleloader & it cuts down on deer losses due to a little blood trail.   sam

Not a good coating now where you are planning on hunting?  I guess it is kind of spotty.  Here in West Mifflin at work the ground is coated but, several areas b/w here and home are mostly grass.  Back home in Hempfield ground is coated and east/north of there b/w toll 66 and rte 22, snow covers the ground pretty good.....

eyesandgillz
Not a good coating now where you are planning on hunting?  I guess it is kind of spotty.  Here in West Mifflin at work the ground is coated but, several areas b/w here and home are mostly grass.  Back home in Hempfield ground is coated and east/north of there b/w toll 66 and rte 22, snow covers the ground pretty good.....

Western Allegheny County nothing on the ground now. Plan on hunting western Washington County tomorrow just north of I 70. Looks like light snow coming in around 1 or so with the latest models. 

Don't stand to close to anybody with all that bad luck .......LOL

Crisp crunchy morning. I got nestled into a blow down with three well used trails. I heard a shot and a couple minutes later a big fat doe was at 30 yards broadside. Well that didn't work out, set the set trigger and just about ready to squeeze she she looks right at me and take a couple leaps away,bad angle so no shot. About an hour later big one and a skipper at 50 yards. Then they start angling away,at about 55-60 I let one rip,ah unfortunately a clean miss. I searched for hair / blood a lot longer than I should,there was a dusting of snow on the leaves. Care home and cleaned that gun for an hour,worst part of flintlock hunting. Oh well still got 3 weeks to kill a buck or doe in Ohio. Check my camera's in Ohio yesterday and several bucks dropped one side already.

A buddy sent me a pict. of a piebald doe that a guy got on the next to the last day in 2-d. He got it about 1 mile away from the one that I got a couple of years ago. Odd thing is that they both only had to make it one more day after the intense pressure that was on them.they prob. were related & it was cool knowing that they were around.   sam