Hunted the seven days of Ft. Sill conventional muzzleloader season and one day of any muzzleloader season. It was very hot; always a high of 85 or higher.

1st day: Saw one nice buck in overdrive going away.

2nd day: Several does and fawns started in and winded me, they took off. Three elk cows came in with their babies. A 7X7 bull elk stayed in the brush. Suddenly a yearling doe came running into the game plot, stopped 20 yards from me and started eating ravenously. Just could not shoot that doe.

3rd Day: Two big does without fawns started in and were immediately chased by a very good ten point buck. Buck stopped broadside about 70-80 yards away. Drew down on him and could not see the bead on the front sight. Did not shoot.

4th Day: Two does with fawns busted me and took off

5th Day: One doe and a small fawn came in. They were within 50 yards but i would not shoot.

6th Day: Saw some deer a long ways away.

7th Day: Some deer came up behind me snorted and took off.

8th Day: Hunted with the Encore. Two big does came in with a small fawn. Could not tell which doe the fawn belonged to and i did not shoot.

Hung it up and put a set of Encore fire sights on the TC New Englander. Broke off my last 8X40 tap, got fed up and soft soldered the sights on the gun. Now the gun will be given a camouflage job something like the one Frontier Gander did a while back.

Saturday starts OK muzzleloader season and i'm after this buck. Yep he is a cull buck, last year his antlers looked worse than this year.