Saturday went afield and saw a nice deer within five minutes.

Now I love shooting over iron, and I can reach out to 100 yards with the Marlin, no problem, iron sights and all. I drew a bead on that sucker, and thought, “does that deer have antlers?”

I couldn’t tell. And I wasn’t going to kill an illegal deer.

So I stopped on the way home and picked up a set of rings for the Marlin and mounted an old 3-9 power on it.

Hell to get old. I bought seethroughs, so I could use the scope to see if it was a male, and shoot it with iron. Damned if I’ll give up my principles just for convenience.