Whitetail Deer Hunting with Knight Rifles KP1 Muzzleloader

By Larry Self, Outdoor Writer

On my first evening in Iowa deer hunting last December, all I could see just before dark, at first, was the back of the biggest whitetail deer I'd ever seen anywhere. When the big whitetail raised his head all I could see were horns, and plenty of them. Although my Knight KP1 Muzzleloader already had the reputation of shooting deadly out to more than 200 yards, the 125 yard shot wasn't right and I let the big buck walk.

He returned the next evening of deer hunting. But it was 7 minutes after shooting time had elapsed, and I let him walk again even though I could clearly see him at 60 yards standing broadside in the crosshairs. Two evenings later, the trophy buck returned again to the cornfield looking for does earlier than before, thanks to some cloud cover on that fatal evening.

It took four days of deer hunting to pattern the big 12-point whitetail, and only seconds to down him as he walked directly into the scope where I'd ranged him at 80 yards as he crossed the rise in the corn. It was the same path he'd taken every evening since I arrived in Iowa. I had sighted the Knight muzzleloader four days earlier and it was ready, but was I ready to take a lifetime deer.

Few hunters get the chance to encounter the buck of a lifetime, many of us never do. My time had come. The sabot, boosted by 150 grains of black powder, struck home. He fell where he stood. When your chance of a lifetime comes, be ready – Knight Ready.