ORIGINAL: mossy33oak
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
Its just my personal opinion
Mossy and a bad one at that. So you actually believe you can harvest more deer since you got a inline?
First off, how can you say my opinion is bad? I hate old M/L's I love inlines.....I would say more people agree with me than you. If they loved the old octagon Hawken's style muzzleloaders so much, we wouldnt be having this conversation, and inlines would have faded out of existance. If I were to hunt a spot where my only shots were say 10-25 yrds like you do, I would bow-only hunt them, but where I hunt a 60-90 yards shot is a common place and my Ruger M77 inline with a 2-10 Aetec will shoot 1.5" groups at that distance. So to me the old style M/L have no use......if you wanna hunt with one, thats your choice. I was just explaining my opinion.
I can understand why you would hate a poorly-designed, big old out-of-balance, heavy hunk of iron and would prefer a properly balanced, easy-to-aim rifle with a scope vs a set of iron sights that you can't even see! But the TC Renegade doesn't even compare to a well-executed lightweight custom Hawken stylke or Pennslyvania longrifle with a slim, swamped barrel and accurate, adjustable sights. And for people who can't see well, a scope can be well-mounted on any style of ML rifle for use where legal. The amin advantage I see with the in-line, of which I now own two, is ease of cleaning from the breech facilitated by the removeable breechplug. And that's all!
Just look at the previous post, if you don't think this rifle will shoot. The MV of that 370-grain Maxiball load was 1740 FPS, for a M.E. of 2488 foot-pounds!