What a day, today was the last day to hunt over in Arkansas for a special Christmas three day modern gun hunt, the weatherman nearly caused me to sit at home, to hell with it I said, loaded my old original 45-110 Sharps Buffalo rifle and drove to Arkansas.
I left the truck at 6.20 a.m. and headed off down a hell hole in the fog and light misting rain, at the bottom of the hole is a very nice oak flat with some large white oaks, one tree there for some reason loses it's acorns later than the others, I decided to hunker down in a big blowdown I saw earlier this year.
Had a nice South wind, I was facing dew south with shooting lanes to the southwest, south, southeast and dew east, after a couple hours sitting in the rain with the old buffalo rifle under my wool coat I heard movement above the rain and wind noise dew east, as I turned I saw a very wide 6 point buck headed in, I flipped the switch on the camera I was wearing, wiped a thumb over the back of the front sight blade while shouldering the rifle, I hit the buck dead center in the chest at roughly 30 yards.
When the light south wind had blown the massive black powder cloud of smoke on north, there the buck lay, BOOM, drop, he never moved, the 514gr round nosed paper patch bullet from a Mos mould that RDNCK gave me exited the bucks left ham up top, his backend was a bit lower than his chest when he stopped to see what I was.
What a fun day it was finally closing the deal on a white tail buck with that old rifle.
The man I got the rifle from is 86 years old, he said his Dad fired the rifle last before I was even born, I'm 57 years old now, this mans Granddad bought the rifle in Dodge City Kansas in the 1800's, to briefly pull that old warrior of a rifle out of retirement and kill with it today just makes the whole thing that much sweeter.
Our friend Stephen will post up some pics in a bit, many Thanks in advance for posting Stephen, I greatly appreciate it Sir.
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