I am going hunting for the 2007 muzzleoader season next weekend, I have one question. I have a CVA Buckhorn 209 Magnum .50 cal, and I do not have a scope. So how can I be sure that the rear sight on the sight ramp is properly adjusted so I can shoot accurately. Ranges will be no farther than 100 yards. Thanks
2007-10-06 05:34:09 · 9 answers · asked by T.Long 4 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I will not be able to shoot it before I go out.
2007-10-06 06:18:04 · update #1
If you cannot shoot the gun and check it's accuracy, and sight setting, can you get someone else i.e. gunsmith/friend to do it for you? I would feel very uneasy using a gun that I had no idea where the bullets were going.You owe this to the wildlife that you intend to take.
2007-10-06 06:59:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you can't shoot it before going out, you'd better not go out. NEVER take a gun hunting that you are not sure is sighted in properly so that you can make a clean kill. Doing what you are planning to do is totally irresponsible. First take the gun to a range and sight it in so that you are sure that it will hit where you are aiming and that you are capable of hitting anything with it. All you are going to do is wound game and leave it to die a slow and painful death. That's not the way REAL hunters conduct themselves.
2007-10-06 07:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
not sighting in before a hunt?
that almost goes under intentionally wounding an animal which you can get in trouble for. My recommendation would be sight it in make time and do it if you cant find time to sight it in how can you make time to hunt? they go hand in hand if you can't sight it in then cancel the hunt think of the poor animal that may have to suffer because of your inaccurate shot.
sloppiness makes all hunters look bad not just you and gives the activist's one more example to use against us.
2007-10-06 07:43:40 · answer #3 · answered by Nick 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Taking a gun hunting without taking it to the range for a practice/sight-in session is unethical in my opinion.
Get thee to a shooting range post freaking haste!
2007-10-06 10:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A .50 cal muzzleloader is extremely powerful. because of the velocities that are performed utilising todays muzzleloaders used with pyrodex or triple 7 powder, and conical bullets, the indoors organs the place the bullet passes by way of are extraordinarily plenty grew to become to mush. many times intantly killing the deer.
2016-12-14 09:10:43 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without taking it to the range and seeing how it shoots with the iron sights, it is IMPOSSIBLE to predict how it will do.
2007-10-06 13:47:15 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
set a target at 100 yrds and shoot at it,
2007-10-06 06:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by William B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cannot be sure unless you shoot it
to go hunting with an unsighted firearm is very irresponsible
2007-10-06 09:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by crazy_devil_dan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no way to tell without firing the rifle. you realy do need to find time and place to do so.
2007-10-06 08:52:51 · answer #9 · answered by Orion2506 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋