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by Toby
Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:07 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

I don't agree with some state regulations either...and that's why I constantly take them to task.

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back on this issue, but it seems we have more "wrong" than "right" today...and I have been busy elsewhere.

Toby Bridges
by Toby
Thu May 07, 2009 10:09 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

Sneekeepete - I'm sure that's you in the photo accompanying your posts. And that looks like a center-fire rifle laying up against that buck you're holding onto. And with a scope on that rifle. How well do you think modern rifle hunters in your state would take to a regulation that only allowed the u...
by Toby
Thu May 07, 2009 9:31 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

Sneekeepete... That's kind of like asking why don't all muzzleloading hunters just hunt the "General Firearms Season"? Forcing a hunter to hunt that season because he or she needs the use of a scope, instead of being allowed to hunt with other muzzleloading hunters during the muzzleloader season is ...
by Toby
Thu May 07, 2009 8:00 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

ABert... Have they developed eye glasses for your sight condition? What other steps have been made to accomodate or remedy your sight condition? Scopes cannot alleviate all sight impairment...but they can counter the most common, such as the loss of close focus and the inability of the older eye to ...
by Toby
Wed May 06, 2009 2:45 pm
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

FrontierGander... I've been hunting with a muzzleloader since 1964...and since 1972, during most of those years, I make an average of 6 or 7 hunts every fall...many of them "Muzzleloader Only" hunts, and often in a very prescribed area - like on a wildlife management area, or during a state park hun...
by Toby
Wed May 06, 2009 1:12 pm
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

Why pre-1850? Most major muzzleloading makers continued to produce rifles well into the 1870s. Attached is an illustration of a circa 1870s Norman Brockway muzzleloading rifle, complete with scope and primer ignition. How about that now! During the 1850s, scopes became a lot more common than some fo...
by Toby
Wed May 06, 2009 10:10 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

Yes Abert , it is called getting older...and there are laws that prohibit discrimination against those who have age-related disabilities. Some eyesight problems can't be countered by optics on a rifle...or in this case a muzzleloader...but some of the most common can. And by age 50, between 60 and 7...
by Toby
Wed May 06, 2009 8:37 am
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!
Replies: 65
Views: 34019

Re: Wisconsin to allow scopes on Muzzleloaders!

Thank you Abert... Do you not believe in the right of choice? You say your eyes are getting weaker now that you are over 40. Well, the bad news is that it doesn't get better...it continues to get worse. What if hunters had to take an eye exam, just like when you go get your driver's license? And if ...
by Toby
Tue May 05, 2009 2:42 pm
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Traditional Muzzle-Loaded Bullet Rifles
Replies: 7
Views: 22523

Re: Traditional Muzzle-Loaded Bullet Rifles

Somehow FrontierGander... I knew you were a bullet shooter. The rifle shown in the following photos is one I built myself back in 1983. I salvaged the lock, triggers and furniture off of a .45 T/C Hawken that the previous owner had shot all fall...and failed to clean. The bore was ruined...but I had...
by Toby
Tue May 05, 2009 12:45 pm
Forum: Muzzleloader Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Traditional Muzzle-Loaded Bullet Rifles
Replies: 7
Views: 22523

Traditional Muzzle-Loaded Bullet Rifles

Does anyone on this forum shoot and hunt with a traditional long-range muzzle-loaded bullet rifle? These days, I shoot and hunt 75% of the time with very modern in-line ignition rifles. However, I still enjoy the looks and feel of a quality traditionally styled rifle. A few of the rifles I continue ...
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