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[Good Cheer]

You guys with failing eyesight that have found the need to go with scopes on your side lock muzzleloaders, what configurations have you found to work best?

[LAGS]

Before I had my eye correction surgery.
I put a scope on one of my TC's.
It is a model where you can still use the iron sights.
It sits right over the barrel and uses a standard 1" scope.
It was a little high.
But when I installed it on the one Renegade that had the least drop in the stock , it worked best for me.
But now my eyesight is much better.
So I don't use a scope any more except to shoot rifles past 200 yards.
Which I seldom do with a ML.
I can't remember who made the mount and it was one that I bought used.

[country gent]

For a while I had a bushnel 2 1/2 phantom on my renegade used the contender rail mount for it. mounted over where the rear site went. Was far enough ahead of the hammer that the spur didnt need bent. It was along the lines of what would be a scout scope mounting today.

It worked well and was low enough to allow a cheek weld

Being head of the nipple it would get some powder residue on the rear lens

[M-Tecs]

Red dots and scout scopes are an option also. Traditional scopes may require bending the hammer. The other issue is powder fouling damage to the scope itself. I am not much of fan of cheap scopes but for sidelock usage cheap disposable scope have some merit.

[LAGS]

I did find that putting a scope on my TC's did help me a lot to test accuracy in my loads for each rifle.
I would put the scope on each one and do a round of shooting with different loads.
I was able to find the most accurate load for each rifle quicker.
Then I knew what to load for each rifle was the most accurate.
I was really surprised at how much difference there was between rifles just in the different loads and projects.

[indian joe]

I have a little 32 wesson that I have kept with the idea of doing this (got several spare scopes stashed away) need something that I can shoot pest birds out of the trees around the place without acidentally potting the guy next door off his quad bike. I know that little gun is accurate enough at 50 yards but my eyes have slipped some and I figure a scope might stretch us back to 70 yards or so.

[Good Cheer]

Before I had my eye correction surgery.
I put a scope on one of my TC's.
It is a model where you can still use the iron sights.
It sits right over the barrel and uses a standard 1" scope.
It was a little high.
But when I installed it on the one Renegade that had the least drop in the stock , it worked best for me.
But now my eyesight is much better.
So I don't use a scope any more except to shoot rifles past 200 yards.
Which I seldom do with a ML.
I can't remember who made the mount and it was one that I bought used.

Hey LAGS,
What kind of problems did your eyes have and what kind of surgery did you have?

[LAGS]

I had Cataract and astigmatism
My eyesight went from 20/40 to 20/25.
Now I only need to put on glasses to read.
They replaced the lenses on my eyes and did an insert in one eye to correct the astigmatism to make my vision way better.