Originally Posted by super_hunt54

In your thought process Bob, why use a muzzleloader at all? Why have a muzzleloader season? Why even hunt since we can get our meat at a grocery store!? See where I'm going with that?

No, I sure don't. This is a hunting forum. We have an obligation to harvest game as humanely as possible. When we fall short of that goal, and an anti-hunting zealot witnesses it, the hunter's failure is what will end sport hunting.

The roundball, in the right hands, is an extremely effective bullet.

I can't think of a less effective bullet.

It's not one that I prefer but there are many out there that are very deadly with their use. We have one hunter on here, IdahoRob I think is the ID, that can accurately take out speed goats at 200 yards with PRB loads and a peep sight! Think he is a slob hunter? The man practices diligently all year long. Many on this site are just like him.

Yes, he's an EXPERT! The tools of an expert may fall far short of the best performance in the hands of the average shlub. When they formulate game regulations, they don't have IdahoRob in mind. The one they have in mind is the guy who just walked out of Dick's, or whatever, with his brand-new rig and some half-remembered instructions from some sales clerk.

Mentalities such as yours are what will lead to the elimination of our hunting rights. Plain and simple. With your way of thinking, why use my traditional archery rigs rather than my compound rigs? Even though I can bust nochs just as easily at 25 yards with my traditional rigs as I can with my compounds, your way of thinking suggests that I am a "slob" hunter just because of the equipment I CHOOSE to use!

I'll try this again. Its not the platform, its the ammo. you wouldn go hunting with field points, for example, which would perform poorly even if you shot them out of a Matrix 405.

I hunt within the LIMITS of my chosen equipment and stick to those limits hard and fast. Most people that I know are the same way. It's the "magnum" crowds out there today using the latest and greatest magnum cartridges that are wounding more deer than ANY of us primitive equipment users because they think the have a magic magnum and trying shots at MUCH greater yardages than they are capable of. You will find most of the traditional hunters out there are 10 times more ethical than ANYONE.

I find your statements personally insulting and rude. It's thinking such as yours that will be the end of hunting in the future.