First off, how can you say my opinion is bad? I hate old M/L's I love inlines.....I would say more people agree with me than you. If they loved the old octagon Hawken's style muzzleloaders so much, we wouldnt be having this conversation, and inlines would have faded out of existance. If I were to hunt a spot where my only shots were say 10-25 yrds like you do, I would bow-only hunt them, but where I hunt a 60-90 yards shot is a common place and my Ruger M77 inline with a 2-10 Aetec will shoot 1.5" groups at that distance. So to me the old style M/L have no use......if you wanna hunt with one, thats your choice. I was just explaining my opinion.