Actually, the ban on sabots, pellets, and scopes was a compromise solution that came about the year after the Colorado Wildlife Commission banned all in-line guns. The ban on in-line guns was imposed when a small special interest group called the "Colorado State Muzzleloading Association"convinced the Wildlife Commission it was in the general public interest; andit wasimplementedwithout much public input and against the recommendations of the field staff (game wardens) of the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

This "Association" is a group of several hundred traditionalists who hunt with Hawken type rifles and are also involved in mountain man rendezvous activites. This group was, at the time, also the only organized association that presented viewpoints to the Wildlife Commission. When the regulation banning in-lines went into effect, there were an estimated 7,000 hunters in Colorado using in-line guns. This caused such an uproar among the muzzle loading hunting community that arecall of the entire Wildlife Commission was seriously discussed. The ban on in-line guns was reversed the following year, but not without additional discussion on where the new technology in modern muzzleloading was going to lead. This was when the ban on sabots, pellets, and scopes came into being. They have since banned smokeless powder and red dot scopes as well.

You got to love this process . . . .