Howdy Rammer,
Our brush up here is of a different type of brush than in the picture. Very nice deer by the way! We get the very thick poplar type woods here with pretty heavy undergrowth, fromlogging.I have tried using a scope in the past in the woods here and I preferred the regular iron sights. I am going to experiment with an aperture sight on my new muzzle loader for next years season. I have been posting on the Muzzle-loader forums and the consensus was that the apertureshould work pretty decentin MN. They said the small aperture would be great while on stand and then switching out to a larger aperture for stalking/dusk situations. If I don't think it will work, then I will probably just stick with the iron sights. I sure can see where the scope would be great down there in SD though, you definitely have the light advantage.

Mike