To each his own, but understand that this doesn't appeal to everyone. I have absolutely no desire to own a magnum muzzleloader and shoot 150 yds, no matter how accurately I can do so. This is not the way I prefer to hunt, so it offers nothing to me. I prefer to meet deer in their environment and hone my hunting skills that will allow me to get witin a reasonable range and let me put a well placed roundball into the kill zone, using open sights. I get tremendous personal satisfaction from doing this but get none from taking a 150 yd shot with a rifle equipped with a scope.

IMO, the magnum muzzleloaders were developed from a marketing standpoint, nothing more. Someone, I believe it might have been Knight but I'n not sure, came out with the first magnum muzzleloading rifle so they could sell more of them. They promoted it as an improvement over any other rifle because it could handle 150 grns of powder and because it could, it had to be better. Of course, to stay in the market, everyone else had to follow suit.