Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
You have two types of hunting.
The traditional primitive hunting that I feel should be 100% primitive. PRB, black powder, primitive sights etc.
Then you have modern ML hunting. That would be inlines, sabots, sub powders, 209 primers, scopes etc.
What rubs me the wrong way is to mix them up. Putting scope on a sidelock, sabots in a flintlock, sub powder in sidelocks, etc.
They're both fine, and have their place, but do one or the other.
Just my .02, so no insults please.
Well I guess we all have our own rules on this. I am guilty of using subs in my side locks. I like Pyrodex. I also like sabots in my 1:48 and 1:20 TC side locks. If I were going after elk I would be using conicals. The only time I use patch round ball is in my flinters.
Where I draw the line is on scopes on side locks . Bothers me to no. End.I know there was a time when we had no choice but to do so. Heck I was guilty of it once myself. But to see one today I cringe.
But to each his own I say.