Keep scopes on muzzleloaders in Utah
The Issue
- Scopes on muzzleloaders help ensure target identification and aid in shot placement and ethical kills
- Why just muzzleloaders? Why is there not a proposal to remove scopes from rifles or multi pin and dialable sights from bows? Muzzleloader technology has advanced but also has for rifles and bows.
- Success rate from the DWR increased 2.5% going from unscoped to scoped. How would unscoping muzzleloaders affect the percentage of wounded animals not recovered? Remember only the aiming device is changing. How many hunters will have a muzzleloader capable of taking a big game animal with a scope that they cannot with open sights and will ALL hunters not take these shots
- what percentage of people who applied for muzzleloader tags last year will apply again next year if scopes are removed 60%? 40? Nobody knows. How many will jump to the already bloated any legal weapon general and limited entry points pool?
- Before modern scoped muzzleloaders the general season dates for elk was September and for deer it was November. I’m betting they are very unwilling to switch back.
Jared JonesPetition Starter
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The Issue
- Scopes on muzzleloaders help ensure target identification and aid in shot placement and ethical kills
- Why just muzzleloaders? Why is there not a proposal to remove scopes from rifles or multi pin and dialable sights from bows? Muzzleloader technology has advanced but also has for rifles and bows.
- Success rate from the DWR increased 2.5% going from unscoped to scoped. How would unscoping muzzleloaders affect the percentage of wounded animals not recovered? Remember only the aiming device is changing. How many hunters will have a muzzleloader capable of taking a big game animal with a scope that they cannot with open sights and will ALL hunters not take these shots
- what percentage of people who applied for muzzleloader tags last year will apply again next year if scopes are removed 60%? 40? Nobody knows. How many will jump to the already bloated any legal weapon general and limited entry points pool?
- Before modern scoped muzzleloaders the general season dates for elk was September and for deer it was November. I’m betting they are very unwilling to switch back.
Jared JonesPetition Starter
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Petition created on November 1, 2023