BlackPowder Friday
I hope everyone had as wonderful of a Thanksgiving holiday as we had at the compound. We had a lot to be thankful for, a lot of family to celebrate with, and a lot of good food too.
The day after, Black Friday to some, is another traditional holiday at the compound and that is Black Powder Friday. The Monday after Thanksgiving is the usual start of deer season here in the wilds of Southern Ohio and this year is no different. In preparation we sight-in and play with various forms of deer destruction devices from slug shotguns to muzzleloaders. So, while everyone else is out fighting over parking spaces, lines at the doors and the Cabbage Patch Toy De Jur, we are out burning charcoal down metal tubes and making the smoke poles smoke. Combine the sulfur celebration with tons of leftovers you have Thanksgiving all over again without the prep stress.
This year as I have turned 43 and for the first time have eyesight issues creeping up, I am doing something I haven't done in the past—add a scope to my frontstuffer. This really is my first scope. I have always been a fan of iron sites and have not seriously ever looked at optics. Now with my age adding an issue, I am giving them a try. This is actually the third scope I own but the first I will really use.
The first was a small Tasco .22 scope I purchased when I was 15 for my Marlin Model 60. I did some plinking with it but no hunting of any kind. The second was a Bantam Shotgun Scope I bought about 10 years ago for a Mossberg 500A with a rifled barrel. I think I carried it into the field two mornings for about 2 hours each and never took a shot with it. The third and latest scope is a Cabelas Pine Ridge Muzzleloader Scope. It is 2.5x, no zoom. I know it is not an uber expensive scope like we are all supposed to buy according to the gun rags, but until I become more familiar with them, I am not dropping a ton of money on an expensive piece of glass that I could end up not liking. Besides, no matter how much they all say you have to spend on the optics, I still am a novice enough to have an aversion to spending $800-$2100 for a scope on a $400 Muzzleloader that is just going to belch smoke and soot all over it.
Well, I am going to go start off the festivities by busting a cap on a nipple and running some bore butter down my tube.
Happy Black Powder Friday to you and yours!
The day after, Black Friday to some, is another traditional holiday at the compound and that is Black Powder Friday. The Monday after Thanksgiving is the usual start of deer season here in the wilds of Southern Ohio and this year is no different. In preparation we sight-in and play with various forms of deer destruction devices from slug shotguns to muzzleloaders. So, while everyone else is out fighting over parking spaces, lines at the doors and the Cabbage Patch Toy De Jur, we are out burning charcoal down metal tubes and making the smoke poles smoke. Combine the sulfur celebration with tons of leftovers you have Thanksgiving all over again without the prep stress.
This year as I have turned 43 and for the first time have eyesight issues creeping up, I am doing something I haven't done in the past—add a scope to my frontstuffer. This really is my first scope. I have always been a fan of iron sites and have not seriously ever looked at optics. Now with my age adding an issue, I am giving them a try. This is actually the third scope I own but the first I will really use.
The first was a small Tasco .22 scope I purchased when I was 15 for my Marlin Model 60. I did some plinking with it but no hunting of any kind. The second was a Bantam Shotgun Scope I bought about 10 years ago for a Mossberg 500A with a rifled barrel. I think I carried it into the field two mornings for about 2 hours each and never took a shot with it. The third and latest scope is a Cabelas Pine Ridge Muzzleloader Scope. It is 2.5x, no zoom. I know it is not an uber expensive scope like we are all supposed to buy according to the gun rags, but until I become more familiar with them, I am not dropping a ton of money on an expensive piece of glass that I could end up not liking. Besides, no matter how much they all say you have to spend on the optics, I still am a novice enough to have an aversion to spending $800-$2100 for a scope on a $400 Muzzleloader that is just going to belch smoke and soot all over it.
Well, I am going to go start off the festivities by busting a cap on a nipple and running some bore butter down my tube.
Happy Black Powder Friday to you and yours!
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