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Nice buck! Great shooting - Congrats!


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Awesome buck, love that mass!!

What's the finish on that barrel?


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Now that's some, pilgrim!

Nice rifle gun and a hell of a buck!


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Great buck. And love the correctly handed rifle.

I shot a giant feral rabbit yesterday with my little 32 cal flintlock. Right at 20 yards, 15 grains of FFFg and a prime of 4F. It has always surprised me how much damage that little ball will do with that charge. Kind of like a blackpowder 22 magnum.


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Originally Posted by 10gaugemag
Awesome buck, love that mass!!

What's the finish on that barrel?


Not real sure what that finish is. The gentleman I bought the rifle from had Mr. Bergmann build it "in the white" for him and then he finished it. On another note, it weighed in at 8 pounds 14 ounces so really nice in the hand.

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grin Yes Sir, they certainly do ; ] great rifle, buck and shooting 303338.


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Beautiful rifle and buck - congrats on both and great shooting!

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Well Done!!!

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That is a beautiful rifle AND a nice whitetail!!

I think it was Sam Fadala who said, "round balls kill all out of proportion to their paper ballistics." I've yet to find fault with that statement.



They don't tumble and unless they hit substantial bone they don't slow down very much.


How can you tell if they tumbler or not?! Lol! And remember, smokeless powder IS a black powder substitute!

Beautiful rifle and great buck, congrats!


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Been sucking for 5 or 6 hundred years.

Nice buck and rifle.


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Nice buck and a nice shot. Nice mass on those horns too.

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Good Deer, nice stalk, good shooting, cool rifle.....well done!!!!

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WOW! Awesome buck and great shooting! Congrats buddy!


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That's just frickkin cool all the way around. Congrats.


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32’s and 58’s are where it’s at grin

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Originally Posted by smallfry
32’s and 58’s are where it’s at grin


LOL, I have 36 and 58's, love em all.


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Beautiful rifle and heck of a nice deer!

I guess I'm in the minority when I say I'm not a fan of round balls. Nothing to do with accuracy, I've just had instances where I shot deer through the heart with them and watched them run for a long ways before dying. They only left blood the last half of the trail. One I watched do a huge arc in an open field so I knew where he lay,I just followed the trail to see what sign he left. The other just stumbled upon luckily while gridding due to no trail left at all. Discovered she only left blood the last 15' and it wasn't much but there was a bunch of it inside and around her where she lay. It was enough to convince me to switch to inline and use saboted 300 grain xtps. I do like shooting with rounds balls and the #11 caps but not at anything furry


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Thank you sir. I've never experienced anything like that yet shooting 54 and 58 caliber roundballs. Actually find the on game performance to be quite amazing with them. But shoot enough stuff and odd things happen I reckon. What caliber where you shooting out of curiousity?

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I killed my first deer with a 54 cal round ball this evening. A nice fat 8pt came out of some blow downs and eased up the ridge. I shot him around 50yds at a slow walk. Sparks flew, smoke boiled and I gave him a few minutes before I started tracking. He only went around 30yds after taking a .530 round ball to both lungs.


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Congrats Bearcat! Its a cool way to hunt.

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