This year, like last year,Iam planning to take my muzzleloader during the rifle seasons I will be hunting. I planned to use Buffalo SSB's in either 375 grain or 435 grain. But as I reviewed the regs for sheep, which if I am lucky could draw, I found that conicals (to include saboted conicalssince they were not prohibited) can not be longer than 2 times the diameter. Hmmm. There isn't a muzzleloading sheep season this year, so this applies to legal weaponry during rifle season I suspect.

Then I pulled out the regs for deer, elk, etc. and best I can tell, during regular rifle, if one hunts with a muzzleloader in a rifle season, he can not legally use a saboted projectile which is longer than two times its diameter. This would mean that the use of Buffalo SSBs in 375 and 435 weights, or any saboted projectile two times its length (like a saboted 325 XPB) would be illegal, FOR RIFLE SEASON. Forgive me, but this seems insane to me. Can this be right?

Looks like I'll have to go to 200 50/40 SW's or something like that. Dang!