Recent content by quicksilverdave

Exactly

That’s awesome. I definitely prefer does for my food source. The game management guru where I hunt has been asking us to take the undesirable bucks to “cull” the herd. I see know from what you’ve told me and what I looked up after, it is not a cure for better deer. I’m just going with the...

No worries. I get it. Some intelligent people came to the conclusion that taking out the deer with cruddy looking racks doesn’t mean your gonna have a bunch of 16 pointers running around. I just don’t like shooting a two and a half year old 10 point when I know he is gonna be a monster when...

Those are good points. I used to do the double lung shot for many years. Nothing wrong with that. That’s what most people say is the best way and it may be. I just believe the neck shot is more humane as the deer dies almost instantly, you don’t have to track it, and it makes you concentrate...

I’m shooting 175 grain hollow point sabot with 100 grains (two triple 7 Pyrodex pellets). This is the first year using a .45 muzzleloader so I was curious as to why the bullet didn’t punch all the way through. I’ve never paid attention to bullet weight. I’ve been hunting for decades and I’ve...

That’s very interesting. I will look into this. Thanks

That’s good info about the shock factor. The bullet broke the middle and top half of the windpipe and clipped the spine. In the past, I was shooting a .50 cal with 150 grains of Pyrodex. The bullet would usually exit. Probably due to more powder grain. But to verify the “cull buck” comment...

I recently shot a cull buck in the neck. I normally do neck shots. I bought a .45 cal muzzleloader and it’s very accurate. When I shot the buck, it dropped where it stood. But I found the bullet in the neck when I dressed it. It passed through the esophagus and clipped the spine but didn’t...