Hometheaterman the gun will ship via ups directly to my front door here in WV no restrictions. Yes the gun is drilled and taped for scope mounts and I have a set of cva universal scope mounts that I hope will fit it. After
all the rebates the gun will cost me $112.42 which in my opinion is a real deal. Dave and some others on this forum who purchased this rifle got excellent groups with it. This will be my fourth muzzleloader and they are addictive so give in to the temptation and go for it.

[&:]WV Mountaineer

This is my first post on hunting.net. You guys seem like a good bunch of guys!

I gave into temptation as well, but on a different gun. I just picked up a TC Omega w/ camo thumbhole stock, in the weathershield finish for $299. I hate to admit it, but I bought it at Dicks sporting goods. I was looking at the Triumph, but this was a great deal and the thumbhole stock really fits nice. I put the Triumph up after this one and it just didn't feel as nice.

Quote to live by: "Once it makes it to the safe I have owned that gun forever honey."

Welcome to the forum Rut N Strut and congrats on the new gun. All the guys on here are the greatest.

WV Mountaineer

Welcome to the forum Rut n Strut. You picked a great rifle. There are a lot of Omega shooters. I also agree that between the Omega and the Triumph, I would have taken the Omega as well..

Welcome to the forum rut n strut!

Here is the link to the rebate.

http://www.remington.com/pdfs/promo_coupon.pdf

Any other sources for bases that you guys know will fit? Also for the rings I know a lot of guys on here hate them or at least in the other forums but I'm really wanting a set of see through mounts. Are they just a horrible idea? I'm wanting to mount a Leupold VX-I 3x9x40mm scope I have on it. Any links to the rings and mounts I should get? I'm getting ready to check out Traditions page now. How much should I expect the rings and mounts to set me back?

Bump I'm having trouble finding mounts for this thing that I know for sure will fit. I hate to order ones not knowing if they will fit and I'm not sure what you got from Traditions.

Also, anything really bad about using see-thru rings? I've never had them but kind of want to try a set out. I've read people say that by placing the scope higher up that from the recoil it will sometimes put more pressure on the gun than meant to be and crack the welds on the gun. This sounds like something made up to me but I could be wrong. Do they actually do this?

The only other time I hear of people complaining they just basically want to complain about them and say you hardly ever use your open sights anyway.

Since I need ones to mount the scope up high on this gun I'm thinking maybe this is the perfect chance to try the see-thru ones.

The one problem I have with see throught rings.. I never use the sights. I get a scope that handles all my shooting conditions, and mount it as close to the barrel as possible. That is one reason I like a 2-7x32mm. If I am stalking around, I use a 2x where if I am on a stand I then set it to 7x.

I ordered the high mounts from Traditions because of the cam action.. I am sure there are other brands out there that would fit the rifle as well.

I don't really know why I want see-thru rings I just kind of want to try them. I figure also if I'm away hunting and something ever happens to the scope I can just switch to the open sights.

I'm planning to put a Leupold VX-I 3x9x40mm scope I have on there and it's not the best scope I've ever had so having the open sights as backup would ease my mine.

As for the bases I see you said that but when I looked I didn't find the ones that fit the Yukon. I think that's the model you said that the parts interchange with.

T/C makes a set of mounts/rings that fit. They are called gorilla grip or something like that. Got mine at WallMart for like $20. The make regular and see-thru mounts. You couldn't give me a set of see-thru mounts, but that's me. The regular mounts put the scope at the right height for me.