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I'll be heading out tomorrow to hunt with a crew. Usually get 15-20 guys. Weather is a bit sketchy with rain at 8:00 maybe for an hour. Hopefully it will be snow.
I usually go in 4D and 5G. Weather guy says rain almost all week, so tomorrow morning will be best window until 1:00 rain.
Hope my fellow PA hunters have a safe and fun hunt, and your flinter goes bang.

I had lots of fun with my flintlock in Pennsylvania back in the 80's and early 90's. Limited success over the years, just two doe IIRC.

Will be hunting 1B in Crawford County for a buck or doe. Still have a doe tag for 1A after filling one in 1B. Good luck to you and your crew!

I'm losing the first 4 days because of work...
I'm hoping to blood my Pennsylvania Hunter.

Good luck!

Just finished tweaking my .62 Jaeger. Originally set it up for moose hunting, but really didn't want to keep shoving 120gr of FF down the barrel just to shoot deer. Dropped down to a .600 ball and 90gr FFF and am getting the same point of impact as the .610 ball with FF. Hopefully get to field test it in the morning. I know the 120gr load gave dramatic terminal performance on deer.

Never heard of a flintlock season. Do they have a regular muzzleloader season as well?

Good luck!

Terry K.
We have a hunt camp North West of You, near Albion PA.
I haven't Muzzle loaded hunted, there in years , only Rifle!
Good Luck, to You and your crew.


Bill N.,

It's Been tradition for years as long as I can remember, (Flintlock),
Antler less Deer, October 16-23, 2021, with Muzzle loader, other wise Flint lock.

Not trying to hijack the thread, just figured Terry's Hunting?

HS58

Back in the day PA only had a ‘primitive’ flintlock season complete with round balls, black powder and open sights.

Things have changed now.

there is an early MZ season that allows scopes, inlines etc.

the late season is iron sighted flintlocks only, and up until recently the only projectile legal was patched roundballs.

there is a crowd that is doing all they can to push the PGC to allow inlines,and scopes during the Flintlock only season as well. becasue well,, they arent comfrotbale with flintlocks, and their children get scared of them, yadda yadda yadda.

I love the season

Just tagged out. SGL 109, Erie County. Little bitty button buck, at about 80 yards. Lyman Deerstalker .50. 240 gr. XTP over 85gr. FFG. Bang flop, .75 mile drag. Good thing it was small. I am too! Old, too...

We have a similar late hunt here in WV now, the Moutaineer Heritage Season. Four days in January, sidelocks with iron sights only, one either-sex deer, a bear, and a turkey may be taken. I use a Parker-Hale 1858 Enfield.

Late hunts are really tough where I hunt. Even seeing one is difficult. With the mast pretty much gone, the game has only to wade the Shenandoah to the ag fields on the other side. If the weather is nice like last year, hikers and dog-walkers wander all over the place. Yesterday, some dipschitt must’ve dumped off 10 or more mags from a semi of some sort in about a half hour a couple hundred yards from where I was sitting for deer.

I might get out for an afternoon this week but Friday will probably be my first day out. Drove home from Somerset to DuBois, today, talk about a [bleep] day for driving. Roads were pretty dicey around Ebensburg to St. Boniface. Not a good day to be in the woods with a flintlock. Still got some rain coming down.

Dale

Sittin here in the fog with a Firestorm

Aaaaand I missed...

What that, a 240gr XTP you say? When did they change the rules to allow that?

I think around the same time they approved peep sights. 2015 or so? Single projectile, 44 cal or bigger, sabots allowed.

Probably the same bunch that is pushing them to legalize ARs.

Dale K. you are travel through and to some of my old country.. Enjoy.

I soot 90 gr of 3F in my Christian Spring .62 cal, 37" barrel. Chronographs at just a hair under 1500 fps. That is my moose load and that is what I use for deer, just makes things simpler. Sights are set up for 200 yards.