scope or open sights

[CRO]

i like the open sights but wondering if i should just get the scope since i am so use to hunting with scopes. let me know

[Lower]

That all depends on your shooting ability and what you want. We cant make a decision for you just maybe some suggestions.

The ML i have now i dont hunt with it i just play with it at the range and i use the sights.

My wife said i should get a new inline one and give mine to her dad(hell ya im gonna do it).

The one i will be purchaseing later this year with be an Omega and ill perch a scope and go hunting with it:D

This shall be my new baby i know where one is just gotta get the 500 and change to pick it up

[quigleysharps4570]

CRO you might check your state regulations. Here in Kansas you have to hunt with iron sights during muzzleloading season.
Lower...whatcha wanna go and buy one of them new fangled rifles for?

[CRO]

thanks mr.q

we can use scopes in la.

[Lower]

it could be a flintlock for all i care i just love thru hole thumb stocks.

[yellodog1]

I have a scope on my .50 cal here in Vermont. Although I do have the open rings beneath it.

[naneeslayer]

no scope on my rossi muzzleloader, only fiber optic sights. it seem to shoot heat seeking missles. never missed a deer with it. most inexpensive gun i own and killed more deer than any other.

[RYASON]

Got both. Scope for low light conditions period. Killed many with open sights, but too many let go due to not being able to see the sights. Scope gives you a few extra minutes and confidence.

[progers]

What ever you personally feel most comfortable with.

If you have to ask then, you probably need a scope on it.

[VargetBurner]

Scope here. Eyes don't focus on sites to well anymore.
'course they don't see far as good either, so the scope is mandatory

[cuzins8]

To me a scope is the only way to go when deer hunting with a rifle.

[Chuck F.]

Have one on my in Line and my two rifles. Eyes are not what they once were.But use what you can shoot the best with. Every one has a different way of going. [/code]

[progers]

It's all up to the individual and if he or she would like the challange of open sites then, that is great. I have perfect vision but, I have always opted to use a scope just to insure that perfect shot.

[Guest]

I like open sights on a front stuffer.Personally I think a scope fouls up the clean simple lines on a muzzle loader,traditional I should say.A smokepole isnt a complicated piece of hardware so why gum it up with a complicated looking chunk of hardware you may not even need?

[cuzins8]

S C O P E !

[john1911]

I put an apeture sight on my Omega this year. Worked out real well. I think it was the Williams brand. I found it best to remove the small disc and use the mounting hole in lowlight.

[MIBuckSlayer65]

I say Scope it...but if it's a Hawken or any other "traditional" rifle...I'd want to keep it looking 'real' no scope, iron sites, and then I'd have to get the mandatory coon skin cap too and some Buck Skin Leathers. Gotta look the part right...HA!

Shoot...now I sound like my wife talking about her golf game or the Aesthetics of it.

I have a 1.5-4.5X Banner on my Pursuit LT...I love it...it's a tack driver and it's really cool to see my "harvest" lying right where it was when the smoke clears.

Good Luck...

Mike

[.50Encore]

I have an Encore .50 with a 3x9 Burris that is great. I shot a doe last night in the rain at 100 yds, double lung and top of the heart. I could barely see the deer but the scope made it happen.
I also have a TC Hawkins that I built from a kit that I have mounted a Williams tang sight. I had a Williams firesight front and rear but the tang sight helps out alot. I can shoot bullseyes with it at 50 yds but beyond my eyesight fails me. I hope to hunt with Hawkins on Thurs. I have two deer hanging now.