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Muzzleloader Hunting
New Mexico bans the use of scopes
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2642885" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Iron sights are much more limiting in their functionality at all ranges when compared to scopes, this is especially apparent when the lighting is not great, such as early mornings, late evenings, heavy cloud cover or dark timber. In these cases having iron sights rather than a scope could result in a missed opportunity even at close range.</p><p></p><p>However they can be used effectively in good lighting, in other words a guy sitting on a hillside while the sun is out still has a reasonably good chance of hitting an elk sized vital target at several hundred yards with prior practice using a smokeless muzzleloader and high BC bullets. </p><p></p><p>Inversely by limiting the effective range of the rifle itself through bullet, powder, bore diameter or other requirements it doesn't really matter how good the scope is if you can't effectively shoot the rifle that far.</p><p></p><p>To make a long story less long taking the scope off a smokeless muzzleloader reduces its effectiveness from 800 to 400 yards but adding the best scope in the world to a 200 yard caplock doesn't make it an 800 yard rifle.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You're missing the point, taking the scopes away hurts the guy in the timber trying to make a 100 yard shot close to dark, it doesn't stop the guy on the hill with the smokeless muzzleloader shooting long range with his highly adjustable sights, it just knocks his effective range from 800 to 400 yards. Write the rules to limit the rifles range and it doesn't matter what kind of scope they have on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2642885, member: 36999"] Iron sights are much more limiting in their functionality at all ranges when compared to scopes, this is especially apparent when the lighting is not great, such as early mornings, late evenings, heavy cloud cover or dark timber. In these cases having iron sights rather than a scope could result in a missed opportunity even at close range. However they can be used effectively in good lighting, in other words a guy sitting on a hillside while the sun is out still has a reasonably good chance of hitting an elk sized vital target at several hundred yards with prior practice using a smokeless muzzleloader and high BC bullets. Inversely by limiting the effective range of the rifle itself through bullet, powder, bore diameter or other requirements it doesn’t really matter how good the scope is if you can’t effectively shoot the rifle that far. To make a long story less long taking the scope off a smokeless muzzleloader reduces its effectiveness from 800 to 400 yards but adding the best scope in the world to a 200 yard caplock doesn’t make it an 800 yard rifle. You’re missing the point, taking the scopes away hurts the guy in the timber trying to make a 100 yard shot close to dark, it doesn’t stop the guy on the hill with the smokeless muzzleloader shooting long range with his highly adjustable sights, it just knocks his effective range from 800 to 400 yards. Write the rules to limit the rifles range and it doesn’t matter what kind of scope they have on it. [/QUOTE]
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