Here in south eastern PA (special regs area), we have one full week in October, then most of December and January instead of using a shotgun. A majority of that time is for antlerless whitetail deer. I have four antlerless tags and one buck tag. After Christmas, I can take an anterless deer with my buck tag if I am using a flintlock.
We have a lot of deer around here but not a lot of places to hunt. It is common to see Does with two fawns and every now and then with three fawns. They re-populate very quickly. Lots of farm crop damage.
I hope to use a tag or two during our archery season, but we will see how it goes.
I plan to do most of my muzzleloader hunting with a .45 cal Knight DISC Elite using 120 gr BH209, 200 gr SW in a tan MMP sabot, and NFPJ using Winchester 209 shotshell primer. This combo rivals the accuracy of my .270 Winchester out to 200 yards. Plenty far enough.