Well, earlier this week I took my sister hunting for the first time.
Small game season was open at Fort Drum Marsh WMA and it’s only about a 30 min drive away, so I figured we’d try to annoy the local arboreal rodent population.
The weather was pretty bad, overcast all day with lots of heavy wind gusts, so the squirrels weren’t very active.
But we managed to knock down two each, and we had a great time so it was a success as far as I’m concerned.
My sister wanted to shoot my Armsport Kentuckian .45, so I took my Indian made Long land Brown Bess.
She took her two squirrels with one headshot each, both offhand.
I was shooting 100 gr ff with brown paper wadding, 2 ounces of mixed 7.5s and 6s, then more brown paper.
Priming was with ff as well.
Trying to swing a 46in Barrel is no joke!
In the .45 we were shooting cci no.11’s, 50gr fff with a brown paper wad, then a .440 roundball in a ticking patch lubed with neatsfoot oil.
It was a fun day, and the half-sole job I’d just finished on the Bess’s frizzen worked great, so that was a relief too.
It’s a good little management area, we walked up on a couple big hogs and jumped about a half dozen deer too.
Cheers!
Small game season was open at Fort Drum Marsh WMA and it’s only about a 30 min drive away, so I figured we’d try to annoy the local arboreal rodent population.
The weather was pretty bad, overcast all day with lots of heavy wind gusts, so the squirrels weren’t very active.
But we managed to knock down two each, and we had a great time so it was a success as far as I’m concerned.
My sister wanted to shoot my Armsport Kentuckian .45, so I took my Indian made Long land Brown Bess.
She took her two squirrels with one headshot each, both offhand.
I was shooting 100 gr ff with brown paper wadding, 2 ounces of mixed 7.5s and 6s, then more brown paper.
Priming was with ff as well.
Trying to swing a 46in Barrel is no joke!
In the .45 we were shooting cci no.11’s, 50gr fff with a brown paper wad, then a .440 roundball in a ticking patch lubed with neatsfoot oil.
It was a fun day, and the half-sole job I’d just finished on the Bess’s frizzen worked great, so that was a relief too.
It’s a good little management area, we walked up on a couple big hogs and jumped about a half dozen deer too.
Cheers!
