I hope it goes where each and everyone of us wants it go. I don't see why it can't within the limitations of the state laws. No hunting sport is more versatile than muzzleloading. A muzzleloaderis so many different guns, it justdepends on who owns it. Thatswhat is so great about muzzleloading, at least in my way of thinking.

Frankly, I don't like hunting rights to berestricted except by ethics and harvest objectives.In that sense, I think if one group tries to limit another's access to hunting privilege simply becausethe other's choice of weapon or projectile differs from their own, then that is bad forour sport and hunting in general. That said, I don't mind a special primitive hunt either, provided, its not primitive hunters lobbying for it as means to impose their preference on others. If the state is trying to acheive a particular harvest objective while giving more access to the privilege of hunting a primitive season, then I am behind it 100 percent. Shoot, I don't mind imposing the use of sabots and scopes in muzzleloading season, if the objective is to increase harvest.

Let's face it.Inmany states, we simply can't keep up with herd growth. Year after year, harvest objectivesfail to be achieved. I know this to be the case in my home state of Oklahoma. I have a sense it is the same in many other states. Provided a hunter harvests his game in a humane manner, with a capable weapon, I just don't think one can ask for any more, whether one's choice is roundball, conical, sabot, whatever.

You know, I haven't fired a sabot in many years, unless you want to call a patch a sabot. Even so, I am delighted I could hunt with them during regular rifle season here, if I so chose. I want to be able to use whatever, and go down the path of whereever, and do it within the ethical guidelines we as hunters consider to be ethical and responsible hunting and harvesting.

Personally, hunting privilege is so limited for deer in Colorado for muzzleloading season, I don't bother to apply for muzzleloading season. I just want to be able to pursue my sport along with everyone else during the rifle season. In that sense, the question could be asked, "Where is rifle season going in Colorado?". The answer may be that is going the way of muzzleloading in all its various expressions, being brought there by people who chose to take their muzzleloaders to the field. In my way of thinking, thats a good thing for our sport.

Happy Hunting, Phil