ORIGINAL: goarmy
Before I start the rant - let it be know that I am a muzzleloading hunter with the latest and greatest firearms, gadgets, gimmicks, and projectiles....
The only sure thing about the current trend in muzzleloader manufacturing (scopes, inline, 209, smokeless..whatever) is that moremanufactures strive to duplicate the qualities and convienience of a typical centerfire fire, the more likely that legislators will re-evaluate the terms "primative" and "blackpowder". These are key terms -especially when determining thelength of special seasons, & eligible game management zones unique to muzzleloading. Eventually these same legislators may dictate that they are only used in a general rifle season. At that point, your scoped modern muzzleloader w/209 ign, saboted boat tails propelled by a 50 gr charge of the mighty "V"will be nothing more than a really expensive & slow reloading single shot.
Government exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Scant few
primitive seasons exist. Pellets, sabots, and 209 primers were all claimed to "destroy" muzzleloading seasons. They haven't. If we are afraid of our own government agencies, it is hard to think that there is freedom. No deer can live on the difference between 3 pellets and Accurate Arms 5744.
I like
choices. It hardly matters what others choose to shoot, for those are
their choices. Smokeless is not the
only way, and not all muzzleloading game taken is by smokeless in my case. It likely never will be, I happen to like variety and use it.
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That caribou from last September was from an Austin & Halleck frontloader-- there is no "caribou muzzleloading season."
Very few muzzleloaders shoot blackpowder at all, some never have. Nothing is primitive about a GPS or a laser rangefinder-- should they be banned? Here, you pay your tag money, and you get the opportunity for a couple of deer. That's all just all there is.[
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