Hunting red stag with an original M 1873 Springfield Trapdoor rifle
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- The Model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor was an excellent military rifle firing self contained cartridges. The first modern rifle of the US Army and a legend among today's black powder shooters. Today it is considered obsolete because of the black powder loaded cartridge, while it is still capable of accuracy and energy enough for killing any European big game. Here is my story about this iconic part of history and the ballistics performance of its black powder loaded cartridge.
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Someone once said and I paraphrase " you don't hunt to kill but kill in order to have hunted" what a great sentiment like your video showing what a true hunter you are. Someone who respects and honors their fallen prey
Congratulations on the successful hunt! I appreciate that you were willing to talk about that happy but sad moment that is often forgotten when you are hunting. On one hand you are grateful for the food, but on the other hand you are sitting with a beautiful creature that just gave its life at your hand. Beautiful video, enjoy the harvest!
Dam that hits me home
Well said!
There is so much here to praise. The lovely countryside, the ethical hunt, the tribute to the fallen game. Of course the rifle and way you knew it. The Springfield trapdoor is such an iconic American rifle. Outdated in looks, but rugged and dependable. It served long in US service. Still in use well into the early 20th century with Nat'l Guard units and a staple of many a poor family as a tool to bring in meat in the days when one could be bought mail order for only a few dollars. Loved to see you even had a proper McKeever cartridge box when doing your range testing. If you should ever get ahold of one of the really early examples, a Second Allen Model of 1866 you'd have a rifle which started as a Civil War musket before being converted to cartridge in the years immediately following the end of the war. Quite a few of those ended up in Europe for the Franco-Prussian War. If you think your 1884 is accurate, you should see how the Second Allen shoots!
Well said, couldn't agree more.
Also, what a profound comment you make after coming up to the fallen stag. You encapsulate my own feelings, and that of many hunters I suppose, so well. Why do we kill these majestic forest creatures? And then, after a while, it slowly comes back to us. Hunting is in our DNA and it's something most of us can never stop doing, even if it means having to take a life. Also, the quality of the harvested meat is outstanding. Is is a gift that we must always count ourselves truly lucky to receive. Anyway, thank you for another great video. You always make me want to grab the nearest rifle and go for a walk in the woods.
Embrace your primal instincts buddy animals don't feel bad about hunting so why should we if it's perfectly natural?
As Steve Rinella said, to ask predators to stop hunting is something we’ve never done before. It doesn’t make sense.
I always enjoy your hunting films. The respect for the game and your enjoyment of the hunt and stalk are a joy to me. This is the way my grandfather hunted, (he was from the Black Forrest) and his principals were passed down to me in America. Now I am old and, in a wheelchair but your videos allow me to still enjoy the hunt. Thank you.
I don't think I've ever seen someone respect their kill like you did here. It's a nice gesture to appreciate what we take from the forest. Thank you for the beautiful hunt!
Very nice stag and excellent video. The older I get, the less desire I have to hunt with a modern firearm. I have spent most of my small game season this year chasing squirrels and grouse with my Indian Trade gun, and I took a whitetail doe during our muzzleloading season with my old Navy Arms Zouave musket, and regular deer season with an original K98 Mauser that was a WWII bring back. I will probably finish out this season with my Winchester 1894 in .32-40 that I took a deer with two years ago and then when our late muzzleloading season picks up, I may go to one of my flintlocks, either a Kentucky rifle in .50 or a Tennessee rifle which very closely resembles a Jeager. Modern rifles to me have lost something, they're great, they work, but if I have to say they're lacking something, it's a soul, that older and more primitive guns seem to have.
me too! Soul and a Dedication. I have noticed I am almost Bass Less when I go Out these days! I started with BP at 12 in 77 now retired I am Back to BP and deeper than ever. I now make all my own consumables and learning to knap my own for my stoners. all my smokeless reloading equipment is dusty with carbon and BP dust.
The fact that you chose to shoot the old deer that is in it's past it's prime age just shows that some hunters will practice to harvest an animal in a conservationist manner. That is true game conservation and true sportsmanship. Congratulations on your hunt.
its a young stag if i wuld guess by the antlers 3 maybe 4 years it was still a good managment kill since it didnt have a crown
Absolutely appreciate Cap&Ball's content!
Nice shot placement! Love seeing these old gals still getting it done, and with traditional loads is even better
Another well made video. I really like the homage you pay to the life taken. Shows respect for the animals. Once again thank you for the wonderful videos.
Nice to see something positive on TH-cam.
Well done on a successful hunt! Using an old style rifle makes it so much sweeter and an good choice to take out the stag.Being a hunter is a paradox,taking the life of an animal/bird is a sad thing but then there is the elation of the success and knowing that it is natures gift to sustain your family .Thank you for sharing this journey from Australia.
A very awesome hunt. Thank you for taking us along.
First let me say how much I love your videos, and that your appreciation for the animals you hunt and the sadness you feel at the conclusion of their lives, revealed to me a side of hunting I had never considered, and inspired me to purchase a license and head out into the mountains for my first hunt. I even decided upon my own 1873 Trapdoor as my weapon of choice.
I hiked over a mile into a picturesque stream valley lying between four mountains. I was optimistic about my prospects as I had witnessed while scouting plenty of well-worn deer trails which meandered past trees heavily battered with buck scrapes and heard dried leaves crackle under the hooves of large unseen animals.
I set up slightly off an old logging road that provided a clear view of two of the most prominent trails winding through the tall grass to the creek. I began scanning the floodplain with my binoculars, and upon the third pass the optics illuminated a magnificent 8 point buck confidently emerging from the early morning fog. He was being trailed by a younger buck, and after stopping for a drink, they began mock fighting, each deer politely taking turns to hop forward and engage the other with its antlers. They were around 90 yards away and completely oblivious to my presence.
I slowly raised my rifle and cocked the hammer from safety to fire. I aligned the cross hairs below the mature buck's shoulders, and placed my finger on the trigger. But the more I looked at the buck, the more I became consumed by the gravity of ending another creature's life, especially one as magnificent as this one.
Having emerged from a long-term relationship, I contemplated the implications of robbing the other buck of its sparring partner. I imagined the isolation and misery my bullet would bring, and the pain and sadness I've struggled to suppress hit me harder than the 45-70 round in the chamber. I put down my rifle and picked up my binoculars, spending the next half hour enjoying the much-needed company.
I saw those same two deer again three more times over the next 24 hours, including one encounter at less than 15 yards (the big buck literally almost ran into me), yet I wasn't able to complete the task I had set out for.
I will go out again tomorrow for the last time this hunting season, though I doubt I'll be able to overcome the emotional wall which no amount of target shooting has been able to topple.
Perhaps one day, whether it be tomorrow, next year, or even a decade from now, I'll be able to pull that trigger and reap the bountiful rewards for all the money and time I've invested.
For now, however, I feel blessed to have spent such quality time in the company of nature's beauty.
Congratulations and best wishes from Pennsylvania!
Excellent video! I really enjoy your passion and attention to detail. Thank you for another wonderful video.
Thank you for another wonderful video! Always appreciate every part of the video from handloads, ballistics, and of course your gorgeous countryside!
Lots of good meat in your stag. Congratulations! I also like how you stay humble about your actions and success. Reminds me that all hunters should express gratitude for their successes.
Stuart
Absolute beauty of a rifle, love the videos.
Hunter's greetings and Hunter's well done. Your respect for all aspects of the hunt do honor to the game and to you. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience.
Respect to you for how you treated and respected the animals life you took to feed your family
Congratulations on a successful hunt. Love to see the respect you show to the animals.
Watched till the end with great pleasure. My deepest respect for you and your attitude. Respecting your own prey and honesty! You are a true gentleman and hunter!
Excellent video in every way, thank you
thank you watching you walk the woods in the fog brought back so many memories
I love this channel! I love shooting and hunting with vintage guns and black powder arms. Thanks for these excellent videos!
Awesome as always
Beautiful hunt and hard-earned success. The Hungarian Forest is so vast and diversified, and beautiful in all seasons. Great harvest with the old American trapdoor, that 45/70 is as good a cartridge as it was over 100 years ago. Your workups for hunting with vintage cartridges are admirable, keep up these great videos of how to hunt safely, ethically and humanly. Love your channel.
Great, beautiful video.
As always.
So nice to see ethical hunters respect the animal. This is what I have tried to instill in my children. Do not hunt unless you have practiced and know what you and your weapon can do. Do not take a shot unless you already know it will be a clean ethical kill. Do not kill only for sport, the meat must be enjoyed. I've hunted all my live and my heart still feels pain taking an animals life. I also enjoy the wholesome, ethical hunt and time spend afield.
what a magical journey. much respect to such a beautiful creature and historic rifle
Another great historical rifle hunt. Love these. So much story in every video. Cheers from Estonia
Congratulations! And thanks for the great video.
Your hunting and shooting videos are always very good.
Thank you for your efforts!
I've always loved your videos! From the amazing weapons to great editing 11/10
Thank you for another great clip 👍👍
What a beautiful creature that stag is! Congrats on a successful hunt.
Congratulations on a successful hunt. Your hunting films are beautifully and respectfully done and I always look forward to them. Thank you for sharing.
I completely agree with your assessment “whatever there will be, it just cannot be better.”
First off congrats! Love your videos keep them coming
Great vid. I owned and shot one of the trap door Springfields. Great fun with black powder and modern ammo too.
Thanks for the interesting and informative content.
Incredible hunt and glad to see the Trapdoor afield! Keep up the great content and warm wishes for more success!
Congratulations on a successful hunt!! I love that rifle!!!
Wonderful video as usually.
Like your hunting videos a lot! So inspiring and relaxing.
Another fantastic video. As a hunter I alway take a moment to reflect upon the hunt and admire the game animal I have taken. I thank God for all creation and providing me with the bounty of the land.
You have a great old rifle!
When it's necessary to hunt for food. A great harvest you have here. And be thankful.
excellent video as always and a good result
You are a class act my friend
A very special moment 🙏
Another great video of a fantastic hunt.
Beautiful hunt, and well said with the conservation. I too have a trapdoor Springfield, its a great shooter, but as of yet I have never had a successful hunt with it. Glad to see yours performed very well for sure! Thanks as always for the great video and to many more coming I hope!🤠
NICE and ethically perfect!!! Greetz from the Netherlands!!!
Très beau vidéo, j'ai déjà hâte de voir le prochain
With black powder even ...love it
I remember seeing the m1873 45 70 in one previous video.excellent shooting excellent reloading process.congulations on your red stag hunt.admire the respect for the game.David Back from USA.
Bravó! A kidobott hüvely hangja, mint mindig, nagy öröm! Bravó!
New subscriber here, sir. I love that you take the time to put in an honest hunt and that you honor the animals you are hunting. As a fellow hunter I greatly admire that. Waidmannsheil from America.
Very close to heaven. I'm so envious of you having such a wonderful experience.
Excellent shooting as always.
Great video!!!!! Love these! Congradulations!!!!
For the first time since 2013 I’m going to get a chance to go hunting with CVA Kentucky rifle in .45 cal, percussion lock. Took my very first deer with it then, a doe. Hope I can bring home another!
As grandpapa would say, "If you can't put'em down with a 45-70, then you need to quit and take up farming". ^~^ Papa was very much a realist and a bit of a card.
I love that quote! Grandpa was a clever man!
@@capandball thank you for saying so. he truly was. ^~^
Capandball. Thank you so much for your reply. That measure is a work of art and i am glad to have seen one if only on video.. Your videos are far and away the very best of the genre. Your reaction at the end of this video is I think pretty much in line with what many of us feel in our development as stewards of God’s gifts. When I reached that point myself, I turned my attention to destructive pests and predators. It’s an entirely new learning experience and one that for me at least, carried me into the age when I could no longer stalk the hunting fields. God bless you and yours. Please keep making your awesome videos.
I love this Rifle, i love Hunting - and i love this Channel. Happy Times! =)
Congratulations on the successful hunt!
What a beautiful journey ans Red Deer are magnificent animals....Taken with a very old US Army 1873 rifle...Nice shooting....Thanks my friend.....From my house built in 1866 here in Kentucky USA🇺🇸
I’m new to your channel and I must say this was a beautifully made video hunting beautiful land. I too will be hunting with an 1884 Trapdoor Springfield this season for American whitetail deer. There is nothing more centering than spending time outdoors with an old rifle.
Great stalk. I have taken a couple of Fallow deer with my Pedersoli Sharps .45/70, certainly satisfying to use old style equipment.
Beautiful video!
Great harvest, and very fine video!
Truly a beautiful hunt! I hunt here in Texas and most “hunters” shoot out of insulated blinds…. I hunt a simple canvas ground blind that most people think is uncomfortable. I’m a sucker for being wet and cold, it’s true hunting.
Congratulations on your beautiful deer
Greetings from 🇸🇮
You hunting videos are really great
Absolutely appreciate your channel and all contents
Great hunt
Love from India
,very nice hunt, thank you for sharing it with us.
That’s some great shooting.
What struck me is I have the same feeling after taking a shot. The rush of nerves and euphoria give way to a certain sadness that something so wild, pure, and beautiful had to die lose its life. I know the happiness and euphoria comes later but I am thankful for such a reflection when I take a life, the consideration given reminds me what it is all about and the history we carry on in a world that is forgetting it.
Fantastic hunt under tough conditions
Congratulations!
Another hunting video already? And with one of my favorite historical firearms. You spoil us Balázs!
Congratulations👏
Perfect for sunday!
Alway enjoy your videos, especialy the BP hunting one (more please).
After retiring from national and MLAIC competition I took up BP hunting.
But I like using patched round ball rifles.
Keep up the great work. THANX.
Well done! I've been wanting to try a black powder rifle hunting in nz for years
Nice job.
Amazing even a black powder 45-70 is no joke that gell block jumped and had a huge impact cavity
Outstanding hunt and shot Congratulations.
thank you
Good shooting and congratulations
Very nice Hunt Balas,Weidmannsheil !
As a fan of the M1873 and 45-70 cartridge , thank you.
Fantastic hunt and scenery, and also respect to the animal 👌
Very fitting that the music is called “your love” as I was just thinking that through your videos your love for the equipment you use and your love for the sport is so indisputable.
My love was wildfowling on the foreshore of Strangford Lough in Ireland , but I struggled so much with hunters remorse, that I gave it up thirty years ago.
I still go out at first light just to watch the wildfowl and so often I have birds come over my head and I say to myself “ there’s a lovely shot “
I live in Washington state now and have a strong urge to take up wildfowling again. The flights of ducks and geese are like the ones I read about in stories from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Anyway, if you’re still reading this , and I haven’t bored you to death,I look forward to your next video and also could you tell me who make your back pack. Regards, David
God bless you sir
Respect.
The trap door rifle is a beautiful rifle that is awesome
Waidmannsheil .
Ein wunderschönes Video mit allem was eine Jagd ausmacht.
Ein gutes Stück Ein unvergessliches Erlebnis.
Vielen Dank für die Möglichkeit dabei zu sein.
Noch einmal Waidmannsheil und viele Grüsse
Frank Galetzka
Well done Balzas. 👏👏👏😁👍🥃🥃
Good shot, clean kill, well done.