Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: Pete112288 on September 02, 2014, 03:51:39 PM
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It has been a long hard grind since last season to get my gun back in shape but its finally ready to go. Last year was my first year doing muzzy. Early season I leaned my gun on a tree to take a leak and it fell and the front sight hit a rock and stripped out the screw. Was gingerly screwed in and electrical tapped for the rest of early and late season. During late season while I was chasing my cow I took a tumble down a hill through the brush and the front sight fiber optic broke out, the front thimble came off (found the thimble somehow but not the screw), the ramrod came out and was lost as well. I caught up to my cow and luckly that last shot I had loaded put her down where she was because it was not till I looked down to reload that I noticed the ramrod and such was gone (that’s when I found the thimble too, it somehow had lodged under my boot lace as I took the tumble.) Emailed Traditions right away (my work schedule kept me from being able to call during their business hours.) Apparently my emails were filtered into their spam folder. When they finally found them I was helped out by a lady in their customer service dept. She was extremely nice and did everything she could. Sent me the screws for the sight and thimble for free. I purchased a replacement ramrod and had them towards the end of spring. Like a dummy I put lock-tite on the sight screw and threw it in without testing it first. It was the wrong one, too long. It broke off flush with the barrel. Took some time to get it out with a tiny easy-out and emailed the lady at Traditions again. She said that screw matched my serial number but just in case she sent me another of the same one and a second one from a model year older of gun. Got those at the beginning of August but I was out of town and just got them put together last week. And thanks to HntnFsh on here I got a handful of fiber optic rods of different color and put the yellow/green one in my front sight (a lot easier for my eyes to see then the red that came on it) The final thing was that after having a hard time on some shots with the factory rear sight blocking the target and my eyes having a hard time to focus I replaced my rear sight with a peep. After getting it all put together I could hardly keep my hands off of her, she aint anything crazy special but I still think she’s sexy. Now all I have to do is get time to get it sighted in before October. Have 200 primers, 100 NoExcuses 460 grain bullets, and 3 pounds of 777 waiting in the safe for my days off. Yeehaw.
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Looks good now - hope it functions well for you...
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Thanks, yea, I know these things have had issues and have taken a bad rap for ignition issues. I have been out in some wet foggy and even snowy weather with it last year and havent had an issue yet with ignition. Only had one primer that was slow to ignite but it was my own problem. I had dropped them on the damp ground and went after the animals instead of back to the truck to get some fresh dry ones. I paid for that mistake.
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Looking like you should be ready :tup:
We finally got a sprinkling of rain so I felt safe enough that I wouldn't start any fires so I took the Hawkins out this morning and feel pretty good :IBCOOL:
80_ yrds open sights sitting down with a mono pole shooting stick and other then I find 63 year old eyes have some trouble seeing ( figuring which part of these bifocal glasses I want to look thru :bash:) that front bead I figure I keep it under 80 yrds I should be good to go on an ELK. Going to try a dab of floursent orange on the the front post and see if that helps some. :dunno:
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excellent shooting rifles, I had the LDR which was a tack driver with the 250gr Thor and the 300gr traditions full bore conicals.
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Looks good. I happened to locate a Williams peep sight for my new Optima. I had to wait in the check out line for 30 minutes at the Tualatin Cabela's grand opening, but I got. Now I just need to get it dialed in this week.
