Are there any purists here?
#12
I guess I mean using as much in a primitive season as can be reasonable.. In pa you can use fiber optic sights, I think you can even use a scope. You can use inline, you can use pyrodex wafers... I just don't think this is primitive and for me, I like the set up of plain iron sights, and real fint on a pan.
Also, I don't know about everyone's guns but mine came with a straight slot screw driver touch hole.
Also, I don't know about everyone's guns but mine came with a straight slot screw driver touch hole.
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.
#13
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.
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.
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.
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#15
That dress won't work in Colorado. Imagine a blaze orange hat and vest over those clothes.
That's why I never got into the mountain man buckskins here. Plus, i'd look too much like a deer, and get shot without the blaze orange.
I often wondered if I was a bow hunter if i'd still wear blaze orange, because it's not required for bow hunters?
That's why I never got into the mountain man buckskins here. Plus, i'd look too much like a deer, and get shot without the blaze orange.
I often wondered if I was a bow hunter if i'd still wear blaze orange, because it's not required for bow hunters?
#16
I'm with you there Muley... When I lived in CO I never hunted - I was in the army and never had time to commit to the license. I did make it back a few times to PA to hunt and I'm in PA now. Yeah we have to wear orange so clothing aside mostly its the weapon and the changes to it to modernize it that upsets me when I see all the stuff allowed and used when I'm out in the rain trying to keep the powder dry and keep it real.
#18
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
That would be me...In NC we are not required to wear orange on our own land...I give talks on the American Revolution to Boy Scout troops and local schools...I wanted a period picture of myself so while squirrel hunting one morning, I walked by my game camera...
I usually have to wear the camo and orange hat or vest when hunting...
The rifle in my hand was made by the late Bob Watts, one of the gunsmiths written up in Foxfire 5...I bought it from him in 1975...The rifle on the buck was one I made in the '80s...I wanted one that would pass for a rifle made in 1770 here in the Piedmont of NC...That style rifle could have been carried by Daniel Boone when he went into Kentucky for the first time in 1769 or it could have been used in the battle of Guilford Courthouse against Cornwallis in 1781...
I usually have to wear the camo and orange hat or vest when hunting...
The rifle in my hand was made by the late Bob Watts, one of the gunsmiths written up in Foxfire 5...I bought it from him in 1975...The rifle on the buck was one I made in the '80s...I wanted one that would pass for a rifle made in 1770 here in the Piedmont of NC...That style rifle could have been carried by Daniel Boone when he went into Kentucky for the first time in 1769 or it could have been used in the battle of Guilford Courthouse against Cornwallis in 1781...
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