---
title: "Video: Cheyenne’s First Muzzleloader Buck"
description: "Watch 14-year old Cheyenne harvest her first-ever muzzleloader buck with one perfectly placed round ball from a traditional rifle."
date: "2017-10-21"
modified: "2017-10-21"
authors:
  - name: "Aram von Benedikt"
    job_title: "Writer"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/aram-von-benedikt/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/video-cheyennes-first-muzzleloader-buck/"
categories:
  - "Big Game Hunting"
  - "Deer Hunting"
  - "Hunting"
---

# Video: Cheyenne’s First Muzzleloader Buck

![](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/TWWCYGW4YS4LXGVHXL7WPINEBY.png>)
*Aram von Benedikt*

Folks nowadays prefer plastic-stocked, stainless steel, scoped muzzleloaders. Not my family—we like the old, traditional smokepoles. We're not stuck up about it though—in fact, we'll use a modern inline muzzleloader on occasion. But there is just more, well, *soul* in a traditional long rifle. Check out the video and see if you don't agree as you watch 14-year old Cheyenne harvest her first-ever muzzleloader buck with one perfectly placed round ball from a traditional rifle.

## Author
Aram von Benedikt is one of *Outdoor Life’s* western writers. He has no formal credentials as a writer, only the authenticism born of a life spent in the backcountry and a library of 3,000 books. Writing for *Outdoor Life* came as an unexpected blessing, and he’s still mildly surprised every time he sees his name in print. He lives on a remote Arizona desert ranch with his lovely wife, a handful of half-wild kids, a dozen horses, half-a-thousand cows, a plethora of cactus, and the occasional, big desert muley.

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