I mean maybe, but i've hunted plenty with a 1x and hitting past 200 is mucho hard. Same with a red dot. Some fancy peep sight would probably be better than a 1x. The point isn't to make it impossible, just reduce harvest. Most guys aren't shooting past 250 yards with a 1x. especially anyone older than about 40 years old (eye sight becomes a player).
Really? That is surprising . I haven't used or looked through a fixed 1x, so I am just basing my thoughts on a 2x variable I used to have. I'll make sure to check one out next time I'm at the sporting goods store.
If I remember correctly, it was talked about in one of the RAC meetings, believe it was the Northern. The general consensus was that even with 1X scopes was that you would have the ability to dial.
I hope some day I will have the chance to hunt big bucks in MT with a rifle the first two weeks of October (I prefer this time to hunt them). They don't have to take anything away from the current season structure, although I don't believe in hunting bucks later than Nov.11th, they just have to shift the season a few weeks earlier. I used to work at FWP, it's all politics and the people making the decisions are not biologists and wildlife managers. They just put in a person from the AG industry, cows, oil, gas and profits outweigh quality of wildlife and their habitat. They won't change anything the next four years.
I agree with Robby. The bucks and does go through at least three estrus periods between the time frame Robby is talking about (Oct 1-Nov 11, in MT anyway). I don't like hunting them after Nov. 11th. and I actually prefer to hunt them the last week of September/first two weeks of October. Our bucks here are hard horned by the first weekend of September. Anytime after that the bucks, from what I've seen, are more vulnerable from pre rut and mid rut exhaustion and as the rut gets more intense the bucks really become vulnerable and in my view is unfair. Interesting in my last four seasons, it is becoming warmer and warmer and some of the bucks seem to act like there is only one season and only stay in their summer range (I hunt remote places with my horses). I also agree that we are hunting bucks too far into the rut, but that can be mitigated by season shift. I used to work for FWP, and the politics run the department and they are not biologists or wildlife managers that are making the final decisions, so it may stay the same for the next four years. Water and the weather are far more important than the hunting right now in my view.
that way in many departments. When I talk to the actual bios, I find we agree more than disagree
It's true you could dial. There's iron sights you can "dial "though (just a sliding rear sight with hash marks). Look at the ol sharps type rifles. That's been around forever. I didn't see did they specify you couldnt use that type of open sights too? Hell i used to have a .303 british with iron sights you could dial..... now I kinda wish i still had it lol
This is rokslide. Don't you do that anyway?
It's funny you brought it up........ after I wrote that post. I was thinking about how i literally just bought a 28 gauge shotgun. When I already have a 12 and a 20.... and hunt big game more than I hunt ducks....This is rokslide. Don't you do that anyway?
.I get that. I'd be really pissed if I hunted with a modern muzzleloader. I've always been a gear nerd... Rokslide does not helpIt's funny you brought it up........ after I wrote that post. I was thinking about how i literally just bought a 28 gauge shotgun.
So I definitely am being a bit of a hypocrite.
It probably is more like I hate being railroaded into buying new crap by the UDWR
