Centerfires have evolved, bows have evolved and muzzleloaders have evolved.

As I have stated before, as I understand it, in the east what difference does it make? Most shots are less than 100 yards. People get 4 or 5 tags a year, so what is the problem? Enough deer for everybody and no one should feel "undergunned" given the typical ranges.

In the west, many shots are WAY longer than 100 yards. Most guys that I know that hunt centerfire here have rifle/scope combos that are capable taking deer or elk at 4-500 yards. Most of the guys I know consider their "inlines" a 150 yard maximum gun.

In the west, there are many, many times more centerfire hunters than muzzleloader hunters. What kind of logic tells you take a big percentage of hunters out of the smaller MLer group and throw them into the already large group of centerfire hunters?

"The seasons were absolutely not named "muzzleloader" seasonsjust to ensure that modern centerfire capable inline rifles could be used decades later!"

Name one modern inline ML rifle that is comparable to a 7mm mag, 300 RUM, 338 Win mag, or any one of the other commonly used centerfire rifles of today? If you want to compare to a 30-30 to strengthen your arguement, it makes no sense.