mgmorden
Member
When I knew everything there was to know (before I got married and was still young), I was always horrified by people who scoped levers and sidelocks. My gosh, how could they possibly do something like that? Now I'm 58 and totally understand that if we want to shoot some of us needs glass. But a recoil pad, never! Unless you have blown out your shoulders like I have.
Probably just has to do with shooting style too. I don't care for using iron sights on hunting rifles. I CAN - I mean I prefer them on handguns and the concept is the same, but my mind just associates hunting with shooting via a reticle. Even if its 1x no magnification I'm fine with that. As such my lever gun and all my single shots wear scopes.
My muzzle loader is sporting one too, because as I said above I just prefer shooting with a scope and truthfully while I respect everyone's preferences, for me personally I don't really get into muzzleloading for the "spirit" of it. It's a way to access certain areas for hunting at times I otherwise would not be able to with my main rifle. Anything I can do to make it more like regular rifle hunting is welcomed to me. Same with archery - as long as its allowed per the regs you'll find me using a scoped crossbow .