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Muzzleloader Hunting
New Mexico bans the use of scopes
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2642785" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>That's a gun and bullet issue, not a scope issue, I can mount a Nightforce to a caplock and while it would help me more accurately place shots it isn't going to extend my range by a whole ton compared to smokeless powders and high BC bullets. Removing the scope somewhat limits those Gunwerks rifles from say 800 to 3 or 400 yards but it also severely impacts the guy trying to pick up the elk past his iron sights in dark heavy timber possibly leading to a worse shot than if he had just been allowed to use a scope. </p><p> </p><p>Just look at the chart below, the flattest is a full pressure smokeless MZ, the second is my savage prefit smokeless MZ, the third is a normal inline shooting 250gr sabots and the final one is a .50 cal shooting heavy conicals. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402798[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>As you can see the rifle makes far more of a difference than the sights, heck there is a <strong>30 ft</strong> difference in drop between the smokeless and a cap lock at 500 yards, a scope isn't correcting that. If they wanted it to be more primitive then they should have limited the rifles and projectiles or went full bore like they did here in PA, flintlocks only and up until recently only allowed patched round ball or lead conical. Instead of limiting the problem people that were too effectively taking their game they made everybody shoot worse and screwed the guys that can't use iron sights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2642785, member: 36999"] That’s a gun and bullet issue, not a scope issue, I can mount a Nightforce to a caplock and while it would help me more accurately place shots it isn’t going to extend my range by a whole ton compared to smokeless powders and high BC bullets. Removing the scope somewhat limits those Gunwerks rifles from say 800 to 3 or 400 yards but it also severely impacts the guy trying to pick up the elk past his iron sights in dark heavy timber possibly leading to a worse shot than if he had just been allowed to use a scope. Just look at the chart below, the flattest is a full pressure smokeless MZ, the second is my savage prefit smokeless MZ, the third is a normal inline shooting 250gr sabots and the final one is a .50 cal shooting heavy conicals. [ATTACH type="full"]402798[/ATTACH] As you can see the rifle makes far more of a difference than the sights, heck there is a [B]30 ft[/B] difference in drop between the smokeless and a cap lock at 500 yards, a scope isn’t correcting that. If they wanted it to be more primitive then they should have limited the rifles and projectiles or went full bore like they did here in PA, flintlocks only and up until recently only allowed patched round ball or lead conical. Instead of limiting the problem people that were too effectively taking their game they made everybody shoot worse and screwed the guys that can’t use iron sights. [/QUOTE]
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