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Ken Perrotte's outdoor column Date published: 11/12/2009
SOMETIMES the prob- A week into early muzzle-loader season, I had taken a doe at close range, and then managed to miss two bucks, one a 40-yard chip shot from a climbing treestand. "This doggone gun must be losing its stuff," I thought. A couple of weeks earlier, I wondered if the Pyrodex propellant had too much age on it or if years of cleaning the bore with a ramrod tipped with bronze jags and pieces of cut flannel had damaged the muzzle crown enough to impair accuracy. Of course, I first questioned the gun, missing the obvious clue that everything suddenly looked better downrange when I inadvertently looked through the Nikon Monarch scope with my reading glasses. After missing the chip shot, I called for independent analysis to figure out if it was the gun, my eyes, or both. Longtime friend, expert hunter and shooting aficionado Thomas Burke The "doctor" first examined the equipment. All the scope's rings and bases were tight. "These Monarchs are good scopes," Burke said, "My guess is it's your eyes. We probably need to readjust Now the scope and my eyes worked perfectly together when it was new. Heck, this scoped gun and Burke loosened the adjustable eyepiece and told me to look through the scope toward the tops of some oak trees 100 yards away. The slender branches at the very top looked a little fuzzy, but that was what I was used to seeing.
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