So uh, which Vortex Diamondback scope did you get or look at that was $400? Cant imagine why you would not be looking at Vipers on sale if even looking at $400 scopes. I gave $350 for my Razor HD LH on a blow out sale.
IMO if your desire was to save money and you only plan on shooting 70gr loads, why not just take it out to the range with iron sights to see if you even like it enough to invest in better optics and mounts first.
Well as far as iron sights yeah I am going to do both ideally. Leaving the iron sights on there with the scope serves no purpose unless iron sights are dialed in.
So the plan is dial in iron sights first Mount the scope zero the scope try not to curse.
Going back to this being a new rifle and does it even shoot straight? Well that's why with all new firearms first thing I do is site in using iron sights. Taking the variable of the optics out and giving me a feel of little rifle trigger break trigger feel recoil etc.
Once that is done and I get used to the firearm and the firearm shoots in a predictable way. I then know the gun is capable.
As far as the vortex scope well I had to try one to see what all the hoopla was about. I personally wasn't impressed of course I didn't have the HD model.
I found decent scope that was reasonably priced after searching through many junk scopes. And hey they work.
Let's be real here what is the scope going to do? It provides a crosshair an image of the target and what we ask of it is 2 repeatedly hit on that cross hair.
If that's a goal then these scopes work great for me. Even more real... We're chucking a chunk of lead at something to kill it humanely if it is used for hunting. If we're doing target practice we wanted to hit consistently and where we want it to hit. The old accuracy and precision. Will a $50 scope do it yeah maybe but not many of them and if so not for long. Will expensive scope do it yeah maybe.
Again $200 muzzleloader black powder can't really see put in $500 optics on something that's going to shoot to about 200 yards. Hell I can't even see couldn't 200 into it and this is why. Its suited purpose in my opinion is a one shot one kill hunting rifle than it is something I want to spend all day at the range with putting 50 to a hundred rounds through.
I mean I don't know what the maximum shot count is without a thorough cleaning but I'm a firm believer using the right type of rifle for its purpose.
If this was a 308 modern cartridge rifle yeah I want to touch 600 yards I want to get a good scope and I'm probably want to spend all day at the range having fun playing sniper.
So why even bother with a black powder rifle you might say? Well I thought it was kind of cool as a novelty. I as I have stated I see their best purpose as a cheap short-range hunting rifle one shot one kill that extend your hunting season into muzzleloader season. Plus no FFL fees.
These things are basically blunderbusses the accuracy really isn't there the range really isn't there especially on a CVA wolf. I just don't see the need for spending a ton of money on a scope for a black powder rifle. The comical thing is a lot of guys only use these things once a year for a couple weeks during hunting season for deer yeah go ahead and throw it an expensive scope these awesome precision machine scope rings shoot the best bullets and only x brand of black powder and that's one hell of an expensive deer lol.
To each their own though everybody spends her money on whatever they want go freedom. The extra two hundred bucks on the scope for me means I could purchase another air rifle which I use very frequently in my basement.
I'm a little more picky when it comes to my personal defense handguns. I found with those it's better to just keep it simple. Remington full metal jackets at the range Federal semi jacketed hollow points in the mag for home defense which also get used at the range from time to time just to get the feel of the powder change.