40-65 strikes again

[rdnck]

One of my hunting buddies got a Shiloh 40-65 Roughrider late last year and took a buck and two does with it, shooting the Lyman 410655 grease grooved bullet. Performance was impressive, to say the least. He got complete pass through on all three animals, shooting through the buck from the front of his chest to out of a ham at 105 yards.

This year he has upped the ante. He is now a paper patch only shooter, and had Steve Brooks make a 390 grain flat nosed mold, and has the rifle shooting really well---and he has been practicing on a set of gongs he has set up in the pasture behind his house.

This morning he opened the Arkansas doe season. My phone rang just at daylight, and he had a doe on the ground. One shot square in one shoulder and out the other at 62 yards. The deer went 10 yards from the hit. He gutted that deer and filled the body cavity with ice, left her at his truck, and went hunting again. 20 minutes later, the phone rang again. He had another one down, this one at a lasered 200 yards. One shot in the crease behind the shoulder and an exit wound straight out the other side. This one went 25 yards. He gutted and iced this one down and headed for the processer.

Two deer down and at the processer before 9:30. I do believe that the 40-65 has earned a permanent spot in his gun safe. This shows how truly effective a Sharps with barrel buckhorn sights and paper patched bullets can be in the right hands.

All I can add is congratulations, and good shooting. Shoot straight, rdnck.