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slavenoid:
I have the Leupold RDS. My eyes just don't do iron sights. I have only practiced getting them on does and stumps. Two times I have seen deer in a shady spot but I can't find them in the scope when I pull my gun up. From a sunny spot aiming into a shadow is tough. My wife took a deer but it was extremely hard to get her on it with the similar lighting effect. I grabbed the gun to what her issue was and sure enough you could only see one leg even though the deer was 50 yards away broadside. Overall it's a plus but it's not like a cheat code imo.

HntnFsh:
No scope this year. Still running the stock sights on my Bighorn. I'll probably pick up an RDS this year after season and play with it to see what I think. But as far as using it to hunt with, not sure. Depends on my 65 year old eyes.

baldopepper:
Been fighting the idea but have missed 3 shots I wouldn't have missed in the past.  Eyes just don't want to clearly focus on that front sight and torn out rotator.cuff on the left arm making it hard to stay steady.  Son in law and friend both had no problem taking their deer with their scoped cvas so I might have to consider it. I could see clearly looking thru their scopes but hate to give up on my old Hawkins. Don't know at my age if I have enough hunts left to justify a new gun.
 
 

chukardogs:
I don't muzzleload anymore but I do use a Browning Challenger 22 pistol to shoot Grouse with. As I've aged, my ability to use open sights waned by my late 30s or early 40s. I started using a scope on my rifles and then why not, tried one on my 22 Challenger pistol. What a joke! The Grouse, literally had no worries from me with my scoped Browning Challenger. It was like playing, there's the grouse, where's the grouse, over and over. Once the scope was up, finding the grouse became almost impossible. If I did actually find the grouse, I usually got the grouse but all I can say is, for the few years that I carried the Challenger with the scope, I went without much protein during deer season. Then someone, a competition shooter that uses the Browning Challenger 22 for competitions, said, why don't you try a red dot on that pistol, it'll change your life.
 Holy smokes what a treat, I found it like using, "wide open sights" that you can actually see through but better. Your target acquisition is immediate, you know right away if you need a better rest and I quit going hungry during deer season. What they call a win win situation!
 Considering the world we're living in today, with rifles connected to the GPS grid and scopes that have a shoot here arrow that can be accurate to a 1000 yards, utilizing a non-magnifying red dot sight on your muzzleloader that will undoubtedly improve your shooting in hunting situations and will most likely leave less animals wounded in the hills, seems like a good choice if one was of the mind to upgrade. Just my :twocents:

nicz:
I put a Sig Sauer Romeo 7 Red dot on my muzzleloader. My groups at the range at 100 yards went down from the size of a watermelon to the size of a tennis ball.

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