hubby11

Thanks for the replies. I'm thinking the scope lets me shoot more deer, but also will decrease the number of bad shots as well.

gregrn43

Scope all the way

Jenks

I am almost 70 years old, so far I can still use the open sights on my Hawken. I expect that will change one day as I have had to put peep sights on my Win. 94. I have a 1.5-4.5 scope on a 3006, which I can shoot more accurately then the other guns, probably due to the scope. I have a tang peep sight to put on the Hawken one of these days, but I will not mount a scope on it. If I can not use the peep sight accurately, then I will retire the Hawken and get an in-line and mount a scope on it. To me, a scope doesn't look right on a Hawken.

Semisane

I've seen that sentiment expressed often Jenks. It always puzzles me. If one likes sidelocks, why would it be preferable to shoot an in-line with a scope over scoping a favorite sidelock?

I consider my peep sighted sidelocks to be 75 yard guns (maybe a tad more under perfect conditions) and my scoped sidelocks to be 125-150 yard guns. I have two in-lines, but favor sidelocks.

mountaineer magic

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Jenks

Semisane, that is a great looking collection of guns. You are right, the side hammers don't look so bad with scopes on them. Maybe I have let tradition cloud my thinking. Also, I had a TC Hawken that a friend had tried to mount a scope on, I had bought it from him before I really examined it closely. He had someone drill a couple of holes for the mount, one of the holes was out of line. I then found out that TC didn't want folks drilling holes in their barrels. I never shot the gun. I decided to clean the bore butter out of the barrel and sell the gun, there was rust under the bore butter. So I did sell it to a guy that trashed the barrel and put another on it. All of that may have soured me on mounting scopes on Hawkens. I also like the idea of a stainless barrel that is not as quick to rust. The ones I have seen were in-lines that were drilled for scope mounts at the factory. So I am keeping my eyes open for a good inline stainless to mount a scope on for hunting. To each his own.

MountainDevil54

'Ah don't need no stinkin scope!

Breechplug

That's it MD, No More BS209 fom you
(BP)

BigDaddy12t

I shoot with both open sights, and a scope. Durring our Ml'er season we cant use scopes, so have my Wolf set up with a williams peep. But durring our gun season, we can use scopes, so I have my Accura V2 set up with a scope on it.

Underclocked

No, MD, I guess you don't need a scope. Just a lead sled and twenty-some year old eyes. Bite me!