Consider this:

Sounds like you got your personal defense all lined up......let me guess...you're a modern high tech, high pereformance, long range, scope mounted inline owner/shooterwho likes being able to also hunt in the traditional muzzleloading seasons originally established by and for traditional muzzleloading enthusiasts...but doing so using all the possible modern technological advantages available in the market place that include ballistics similar to many centerfire rifles, to make your hunting easier so there's nothing to study and learn.

It was really a retorical question...it describes the rationale for99.9% of all inline purchases and use in the country...some states are beginning to try and restore the muzzleloader seasons to what they were originally established for...that's all Idaho is doing, I hope they're successful, and I hope every state in the country follows suit.

Allowing todays state of the art modern high performace centerfire ballistic equivalent rifles that load from the frontinto original muzzleloading seasons is no different than the attempts to allow high tech, high performace, scoped sighted crossbows into the originally established bow seasons, and that's also beingfought tooth and nail at every turn, with obvious good reason too.

So if the modern inline tech-nocratisgoingto take advantage of something usinghigh tech gear several times more proficient than traditional styled muzzleloaders, then they shouldat least stand up and be menabout it and admit it...they shouldn'tpost self-serving drivelabout them being no different than traditional muzzleloaders...every 12 year old in the countryknows better than that.