The Hunting Times

So Krueger is doing some snooping around on the internet trying to figure out what barrel to put on his Thompson / Center (T / C) Encore muzzle loader.  The problem is that the trigger is not the best for precision shooting.  That leads to an investigation on what to do to improve the trigger function on the T / C Encore so that he could get excellent groups. Turns out that Mike Bellm's T/Cs provides multiple spring kits (at different poundages) for $20.  This turns out to be a Great Deal for 5 springs that will definitely improve your trigger function!  You can go to Mike's website to buy direct here:  https://www.bellmtcs.com/ Go to Store Categories -> Shop and pick the right spring kit for your gun and your preferred poundage. We order the Encore 2.5# spring kits and await their arrival.  Kruger comes over and we tear our guns apart - carefully. Thanks to the wonderful research tool that is YouTube, we utilized the following video to help us take them apart and

Deer Season in Indiana opened on 01 OCT for archery for the general public.  It has been way too warm to go sit and swat mosquitos, hoping for deer to be traveling around during the day.  So instead, we have been mowing the yards - plural. Finally, it has gotten cold enough to keep the bugs down and get the deer up, but Mother Nature also brought about 1.5" of rain.  Oh well, time to get into the woods. Alex came home from the high school volleyball sectional at CP Friday night and saw 8 deer feeding on Marshall's N woods.  We got up and rolled at 6:40 to head that way. Alex sat on Neal and I went to the bottom ground on Marshall's N woods.  Sunrise was at 7:54, so legal light was 7:24.  We were well on our way into the woods when it got to legal light. Yep, it was a bit chilly, but fortunately the wind was not blowing hard. I watched a nice-sized deer head E across a row of trees.  I snuck E to cut it off.  I waited for what seemed like enough time for it to