RE: About Smokeless Muzzleloading
Let's see,
I. SMOKELESS MEANSHIGH VELOCITY
II. SMOKELESS MEANS HIGH PRESSURE
III. SMOKELESS MEANS SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER RANGE
IV. SMOKELESS MEANS LESS RECOIL
V. ONLY SMOKELESS IS LOADED IN MODERN CARTRIDGES
VI. SMOKELESS MEANS LESS OPERATING COST
VII. SMOKELESS IS A SAFER WAY TO MUZZLELOAD
VIII. SMOKELESS MUZZLELOADERS LAST LONGER THAN OTHER MUZZLELOADERS
IX. SMOKELESS MUZZLELOADERS ARE MORE ACCURATE THAN REGULAR MUZZLELOADERS
X. SMOKELESS MUZZLELOADING IS A QUICKER, MORE HUMANE WAY TO HARVEST GAME
Hope you don't twist your elbow patting yourself on the back so hard. If "smokeless" is so perfect (and Savage along with ya) then why not just go buy a bolt action .270 and be done with it?
I personally wouldn't mind talking about the benefits and issues that come w/ the Savage rifles, and shooting smokeless, if you weren't so flippin holier than thou. Lots of people LIKE the smoke and soot, some of the people on this site consider themselves MANLY and don't have a problem with the recoil, many of us are quite proud of our marksmanship and do not consider cost as one of the factors driving our shooting decisions (by the way, the extra two or three hundred bucks a Savage costs would buy a whole lot of bullets and powder), and lastly, but certainly not least, to "kinda"question folks hunting ethics by implying that if you hunt w/ your gun a person is more ethical than a person shooting a flintlock is total rubbish.
Thanks so much for informing me on all these issues- not.
Hank