I'm sure people won't get too upset if I include a photo of the Fallow stag with the Win '95 even though it's not a single shot. This carbine version is a great rifle in to carry in the bush and the standard sights are OK to use with old eyes except in real low light conditions. The .303 chambering was popular here in Oz & NZ but I suppose it would be rare over there in the USA. This rifle was made in 1921 and and has been here for most of it's life.
This fallow is the other variety that we encounter with the darker melanistic colouring.
I saw this stag chasing a doe early in the morning but lost him in some thick timber near the crest of a hill. I returned to the same area later the same day and sat on a well used game trail hoping he might reappear just before dark after an afternoon snooze. Everything went according to plan and the wind was in my favour as I heard a twig crack up the trail and saw a dark shape moving down the trail. At the flash of an antler I eased the hammer back to full cock and sighted on a gap between the trees. I suppose his mind was on those girls down in the valley as he sauntered down the trail and into view. He never knew what hit him!
The freezer is now well & truly filled with venison.
Spud 

Very cool!!! Congrats and thanks for sharing.

Good on ya!

Congratulations on a great hunt Spud. Out of curiosity what weight was your Fallow deer?

I bet if that 95 could talk it would keep us all entertained for awhile!  Tom

One time up in Colorado in elk season, an old ranch foreman gave me his 95 in 30-40 and his ammo and said go get an elk. Fortunately, I didn't see one on that day. I told him his ammo looked kind of old (it had the old domed primers) and if he would loan me the rifle I would make him some new ammo tailored to it. So, at home, I took it to the range and shot his old ammo up to get the brass. I say shot, but it was more like pull the trigger, wait for the hammer to fall, wait, wait, boom! I've seen much faster response from a flintlock! And that's why I was fortunate not to have seen an elk that day; between the click of the hammer falling and the boom, the elk would have been in the next county.

Used to pack into the wilderness here in Ca. and about five miles back. One of the older fellows in our group shot a 8MM that he brought back from the war and worked on it. No doubt the best shot in the group and we hunted at and above the timber line so shots were always quite long. He had always used his Iron sights and he always got his game every year. He was finally talked into putting a scope on it by the group. The next year he missed every animal that he shot at and the next year the scope was already back off. The sights on the 95 brought that back into my mind as you just don't seem them being used that much anymore. Used to be most everyone had buck horn sights put on and what I also used to shoot my first deer and that is going back over 51 years ago now.