Ontario Muzzleloader Buck

[Spring Creek Calls]

Just arrived home from a week long muzzleloader hunt in N. Ontario. Was fortunate to shoot a decent buck, but not the one I was after. I found a pair of sheds lying side by side in a finger of cover running into marsh grass in a dried up beaver pond. The finger had several rubs and lots of beds in the marsh grass, so I made up a ground blind out of balsam boughs back to the east of the finger as the wind was to be w/sw for the next couple days. After letting it rest a day before hunting, the first day went by without seeing a deer in the 10.5 hours in the blind. At 11 am on the second day, immediately following some horn rattling with the sheds, I noticed some movement in the marsh grass. In a few seconds I could see the back of a deer moving my way. The upper half of the mahogany rack then came into view as he worked his way thru the maize of poplar downfalls left by the beavers. I had already made up my mind that he was a "shooter", so when he cleared the last of the marsh and stepped up into the poplar saplings, facing nearly straight on to me, I found a clear path to his neck and took the shot at 30 yards. When the smoked cleared, the buck was down with hardly a movement.

[drenalinld]

Nice buck, congrats!

[hookedspur]

 

[redarrow]

Nice Buck. Do you hunt your own property in Can. or use an outfitter ?

[nctrkyhntr]

 

[Spring Creek Calls]

Nice Buck. Do you hunt your own property in Can. or use an outfitter ?

We stay with an outfitter but hunt on our own. You can only do that in certain WMU's in Ontario.

[redarrow]

If you don't mind could you PM me with the outfitter info. Ive bear hunted Ont.and a deer hunt sounds interesting.

[GOLD HUNTER]

thats a gooodn !!! 

brian

[Crappiepro]

Congrats on a nice buck!

[timbrhuntr]

Congrats. Muzzleloader don't start until next week where I am at in Ontario.

[flintlock]

Congrats on smoking one!

[Reloader]

Congrats!

[Basser69]

Congrats on a fine deer!