Hunting with milsurps.

[Sapper740]

Over the years I've hunted with just about every milsurp I've ever owned but that was before the time of smartphones. Rarely I carried a camera but upon occasion one of us did and I'm glad someone did on this trip as it is the only time I ever bagged a deer with my Trapdoor Springfield. This nice Mule Deer was taken in M.U. 4-01 in the far S.E. corner of British Columbia in the Flathead valley. It was especially satisfying since the cartridge used was completely hand rolled by me, including the bullet. I replicated the .45-70 500gr. To bag this deer I hiked up a ridge in the dark to get above the deer and waited until they moved up out of the valley to bed down for the day. I quietly and slowly then worked my way down and caught this big guy in his bed and shot him from about 40 yards. He never knew what hit him as his attention was down slope and a 500 grainer at virtually point blank range in the boiler room negated the need for a reload.