ORIGINAL: Maverick 1
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.
I don't think the 4 day thing lasted more than a year or two but I remember it well because I had a real hassle getting that Friday off the year I killed my first muzzy deer. I just called the buddy that hunted with me and he remembers it was that way that year as well. As for the limit on numbers, you've now got me second guessing myself. Perhaps it was only something they proposed. Obviously weare both a bit long in the tooth and the steel trap memory I hadonce now sometimes seems more like a steel sieve
I am, however, 100% sure on the 4 day thing though! It did happen at least once.
