BTB,

Are you sure your memory serves you correctly. Maybe mine doesn't but I have been using the flintlock since 1980 and I always remember the season just as it is now. That is starting on the day after Chistmas and lasting for a week and a half or a two week period. I never remember their being a limited supply of muzzleloading stamps. At one time there used to be a limited supply of doe licenses and I do rember a time when I had to forfit my doe license application as you have mentioned. I do know that the muzzleloading season was slowly introduced. For some reason 1974 seems to stick in my mind as the first year muzzleloaders were introduced.