But this past Saturday in the morning we hunted my uncle's land and I called in this doe with a nice 8 point buck following her. I aimed my CVA Optima 50cal muzzle loader and pulled the trigger. All I got was the click from the hammer. The primer never went off. Not even two minutes later another buck 6 points I believe came towards me. With a new primer in I waited and got the shot I wanted. Off went the primer but the gun never fired. Two bucks gone by not even 35 yards away from me and my gun failed me.. I was seriously ready to toss the gun and go home. Instead of buck fever I had buck madness, lol. I was furious with what just happened to me. We pulled out the woods about 10:30 am and I went back to my uncle's house. Explained what just happened. My cousin he tried to shoot my gun at a target we set to see whats happening and same thing primer goes off but no shot fired. My uncle took off my breach plug and to find out my plug was compacted and clogged. Thankful the gun never backfired on us. My uncle cleaned the plug and like new my cousin placed the shot on the target about 50 yards away. Now on I will check my plug. Afterwards I left and went to the 200 acres
I setup in my tree and waited. I used my Primos caller and the Knight & Hale Pack Rack through out the afternoon. Finally some does about 3 came out from the cut down( some the land was cleared and is growing back up) I tried to make some low grunts and got their attention but the kept heading through the land toward the woods. Out behind came a 4 point buck following the does. I grunted for his attention which he stopped and looked around. But about maybe 100 yards away he stopped and I place my shot. I felt bad afterwards taking the shot on such a young buck.
But here are the pics.
