ORIGINAL: Blackpowdersmoke
ORIGINAL: driftrider
Yep; good old kentucky windage. It's a fun game to play at the range but it's really hard to judge correctly all the time. 4" is very significant and very hard to judge.
Try telling that to those who think shooting at deer at 200+ yards with an ML is a fine idea! [:@]
Mike
Exactly!!!...The in-line is going to keep progressing into a weapon that most states should eventually remove from their muzzleloader seasons. I currently own 14 ML rifles and only three are in-line. I had four but gave one away to a very good friend as a birthday present. Ihave killed deer with all of them and each time I used one I felt like I was hunting with one of my centerfire rifles. Give me the Flintlock or the sidelock Percussion (if the weather gets crappy) and I feel like I'm huntingwith a MUZZLELOADER!!!!....BPS
That would be true is you chose to limit your bullet selection to round balls or big conicals, but modern made sidelocks can equal the performance of any inline. A muzzleloader is a muzzleloader.
My point is that even with the performance of "modern" muzzleloader (a muzzleloader, by definition and by virtue of loading one component at a time from the muzzle, regardless of the type or quantity of said components, is not a modern firearm), they are really not a good 200+ yard weapon.
Mike