[Vanilla]

You will see those scopes that are discontinued back on the market by the fall.

They were only discontinued because they were no longer relevant to the market. Now they are relevant to the market again. Give it a couple years and you’ll have a turreted 1x or red dot scope that is the bee’s knees and custom for your specific load.

 

[Vanilla]

I thought you gave up big game hunting for fishing full time?

 

[Vanilla]

1X scopes are worthless. IMO
That's why I waited for years to put a scope on my muzzle gun. I was against scopes when they did it years ago.
I finally went ahead and did it after waiting years. I killed some big deer with open sights. Decided to make the investment as I got older.
Now I'm screwed. I'm sick of the flip flopping.
It REALLY pisses me off.

I know several of you will severally chastize me.
Don't care !!
It's totally bull that a few get to dictate.
I have to let off some steam.

This take is actually really refreshing. You bought a scope, line it, and want to keep it. That is 100% rational to me!

And it’s nice not to hear about how impossible it is to be ethical without a scope and how all you do is wound animals without a scope. It’s almost like nobody knew how to hunt with muzzleloaders prior to 2016!

I will never be able to say you’re wrong for just saying you want to keep using a scope, because it’s entirely your prerogative to feel that way.

So many of the other arguments became so lame.

 

[Vanilla]

thank god for my 20/10 vision

Enjoy it while you can! My 20/10 started turning fuzzy a couple years ago.

 

[Vanilla]

I get a tag every year. I was a wise 13 year old. Wise beyond my years!

 

[Vanilla]

Fixed it for you!

I would also add that you probably had a dad who knew what he was doing

I'm just jealous

The paper route I started working at 8 years old paid off in spades! No doubt about that. Best $500 I’ve ever spent. Also no doubt about that.

 

[Vanilla]

Airborne, my dad absolutely encouraged my brothers and I to buy them. We have successive numbers in our licenses as a result of that.

I won’t claim pre-deer hunt aged Vanilla had the foresight all in his own. Like Critter said, $500 was quite a bit of cheddar back then and my dad wasn’t going to buy 4 of them. That wasn’t something that was in the cards for my folks.

My dad was encouraging everyone he knew to buy those things when they went off the market. I only know of one other family that did it. The dad of that crew didn’t even deer hunt and the boys didn’t start deer hunting until well into their adult years, closer to when their kids could start hunting. They were bird hunters only. I know of a couple guys that bought it just for the lifetime fishing license, because they did the math and realized that just not having to buy a fishing license each day made it a great lifetime investment. I doubt either of them have ever even considered hunting of any kind, but they enjoy not having to buy fishing licenses still to this day.

So to wrap it, my dad strongly encouraged us to buy these. He was instrumental in that. I’m not sure he had the foresight to know where deer hunting was going at the time, at least I do not remember it being part of the discussion, it was just a wise investment that some of us made and many did not.

So now I’m considering buying a new muzzleloader and hunting in September this year. And yes, I will draw the tag.