bfrshooter, how many deer taken with a muzzle loader?
Quite a few, used a flint lock in Ohio mostly, Hawkens and percussion too. Never kept good track. Shotgun a few times but we could not use revolvers back then. Had to use a flint in late PA season.
How many? You averaged 14.25 deer a year for 40 years, right?
Many years over 30 while I was issued unlimited tags from owners and farmers. They got stacks of them. Best year might have seen 45. I had 5 orchards and many farms, fed a lot of poor and it was better then what the farmers did, they gut shot them to die in the woods so they did not have to drag them from field. There is a pig farmer near here that has shot as many as 200 a year. He tosses them in a ravine to rot. Last few years I have held it to seven and had to quit with 5 last season, they reduced the doe allowed to 3 a season.
