Turkeygirl

What's the difference between a scope designated for a muzzleloader vs. a rifle scope? Was just going to get a rifle scope for on the muzzleloader but wondered if there is any major difference or benefit of one over the other?

Found a Leupold VX1 3-9x40 scope for $149 on Cabelas...thinking I may grab one for my CVA for next year. Lots of good reviews on it.

ScentLok and Scentblocker have been having some great deals on camo on their websites.

Good deal wtn..I better go check the bargain cave!

Congrats to her, and you! Great job!

Figure if anyone finds any good deals, post up here! Sifting through Cabelas and Bass Pro right now...

Beautiful mounts RTF!!! Very nice work. Going to be awhile till I get my muzzleloader 8 point back from the taxidermist but having it done in the McKenzie 8900 series wall pedestal with a left turn

Mathews XT, did my reply PM come through to you? Just wanted to make sure, have had issues in past with messages going through.

Congrats Vermont Hunter! One of these days I may get a crossbow...there are some advantages.

Here we go. Names were drawn out randomly. Everyone needs to make sure to contact your X-change buddy and trade addresses, etc. Have fun and Merry Christmas! Pair 1 = The Bug House - ALAN Pair 2 = Fly - Hammerforged Pair 3 = Turkeygirl - Mathews XT Man

Long weekend? lol not for me, working Friday through Sunday. Thankful to have turkey day off though. Going to get out and do some trail camera checking.

Congrats hoytshooter, thats a great buck!

Awesome!!! If not tonight then tomorrow after work I'll post up the pairs. At that point what ya'll will do is need to contact each other with addresses and any other info you might want your exchange partner to know.

My family, we do our own deer. Skin and hang it same day it's shot, usually within a couple hours. If cold temps we try to hang about a week in the cellar for aging. Cut our own steaks, loin chops, grind for hamburger and sausage. A couple times we sent meat out for hotdogs but they wanted it cut up a certain way and specific amount so we haven't done that for a few years now. If warmer temps, we'll only let hang maybe 3 days at most.

Wow Rhino, what a deer, congratulations!!

Well a beautiful 8 point is tagged for gun season. Will get him entered for the team instead of the bow buck since they're both 8s. How's everyone else doing.

On this nice 8 point! Got him 11/19/17 around 9am with the .50 cal TC Muzzleloader at about 40 yards. Braved the cold wind yesterday morning. Had been catching glimpses of deer around 8am but had just been seeing a doe, was staying in some hemlocks and I had a feeling there was a buck nearby. I finally caught sight briefly of some white, tall tines darting around and realized there was a big buck dogging this doe around; was surprised really. Tried a few times to get him to stop but he was on a mission. Finally got him stopped and sent a 250 gr Hornady SST behind the shoulder and through his lungs. Decided to do a shoulder mount with him, very happy, 2nd best gun buck to date and even have summer cam photos of him. Truly blessed this year, thanks be to God.

How's everyone doing? Got a nice 8 point on 11/6. Just gotta get it entered. Would love to top it during gun season but hey I have been blessed and am very thankful. Will get it entered so we have some points on the board

There is a Realtree Edge pattern...saw it came out on the new Hoyt Bows. Haven't seen it on clothing yet.

Thanks fly! A wonderful blessing and hunt. Was a challenging season between working and hunting and the weather.

Thanks for the help wtn...yeah I'll try just clean and dry swab and avoid the oil protectant stuff...maybe that is contributing to the excess build-up. I have some of the hollow point hornady as well I wanted to put through it and see how they flew.

What bullet/sabot are you using wtn? I'm using hornady sst. I see CVA recommends Powerbelts? Do you still need the plastic sleeve on those do you know or not? I see they have a plastic base on them

I'm using Winchester 209 primers....was just reading online some recommended the CCI primers, specifically with the blackhorn powder. I may have to try the powder next year. I was running a rust protectant patch down the barrel but maybe I should just do a dry patch after cleaning it if I'm going to be shooting....

Shot the Accura V2 for the 1st time today...love the trigger on it but it seems I've got to clean it every 3-4 shots....crud really builds up on the breech plug and even firing pin area. Curious as to how many shots you get through yours before you clean? Had a couple misfires as well...thought maybe it was moisture from washing the breech plug or swabbing the gun inbetween....the 2 triple 7 pellets didn't seem to ignite fully must be, the shot didn't go very far...I got close to the bullseye then 2 misfires I quit until tomorrow and gave the gun a really good cleaning, noticed the breech plug was really caked and some caking around the firing pin so I removed that and cleaned it. What do you do when you clean the firing pin assembly?

Awesome wtn! A few coyotes in my area this area....rarely got photos on my cameras prior to this year, now I get them quite frequently.