Here in NV, you can use pretty much any muzzleloader/projectile/powder combination that you want. You can only have open sights during a muzzleloader only hunt, but during an any legal weapon hunt, you can have a scope. I don't think many people in this state can hit as far as the muzzleloader will shoot with just open sights, so there shouldn't be any problems there. I don't think that NV will change its ML laws any time soon.

I am planning to apply for a cow elk muzzleloader tag this year, and I am becoming comfortable with my ML. The sights are not adjustable, so I will be putting a set of tru-glos on. It is a CVA Bobcat .50 percussion ignition. I have looked a balistics tables and have found that with 90 grains of 2f equivalent pyrodex and a 245 gr. Buffalo Ball et, this combination will have enough power that is needed to kill an elk than I will be able to effectively shoot. I will know what my limitations are, and I will settle for nothing else.

I think that the major problem with these reports of lost animals is people that don't practice and exceed their own limitations. I think that there should be laws limiting ML firearms only to a certain extent, so that people will still be able to make a quick, clean kill on an animal. That is the most important part of it all. Face it, the people of today are nothing compared to the early explorers, where they HAD to make a shot to survive, some people don't think about that and just shoot.