Accepted muzzleloader as muzzleloader
And never brought one home from the woods loaded to fire.
And if you didn't clean the muzzle out with "moosemilk" that day, it was still loaded. Cleaning a flintlock rifle was done as surely as firing it.
And my thirty plus year old flintlock is ready to fire this year, without any primer. I heard there is a shortage of the latter. It doesn't take cartridges either. The rifle gets loaded in the woods. And the "moosemilk" is ready.
And I don't listen to newbies on my thirty year old plus muzzleloader.