Congratulations are in order for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Commission. In a 4-3 vote yesterday, that Commission legalized the use of a riflescope during the early muzzleloader deer season. Scopes were already allowed during the late muzzleloader seaason.

This makes Kansas the 38th state to allow the use of magnifying rifle sights during the special muzzleloader seasons. The NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING ASSOCIATION hopes that the remaining states with very discriminatory "no scopes" muzzleloader hunting regulations will also be open minded enough to eliminate restrictions that make it impossible for ethical older hunters with natural age-related sight impairment from enjoying the muzzleloader seasons.

To require all hunters to use open sights during these seasons violates Federal discrimination laws. It is time to give the hunter the right of choice - to use a scope or not use a scope.

A magnifying riflescope is still prohibited during the muzzleloader seasons in Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

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After our month long archery season in Oregon ended, my husband and I hadn't gotten enough hunting in. Since I was the only one that got a deer, and he had to wait until late season to try and archery hunt again, we had to find something to fill our time. Our friend had just gotten a new coyote caller, and we thought we would give it a try. We had seen a few coyotes when we were archery hunting and thought the area would be good to try, who knows, maybe we would see that bear we had on our game camera.