We are limited to iron sights with our ML season. That tends to be a bigger issue than the ML itself, with my inline anyway. I harvested one with a ML last year at 140 paces. So the range is there with an inline, but bearing down with iron sights can be challenging as the yardage increases.

I hope they keep the separate season. It's really nice as of a couple of years ago when it allowed us to hunt both Rifle and ML season on the same license and tag. Now we can deer hunt for basically 6 weeks.

The late season ML is a significantly different hunt as well. During rifle season, we are usually pretty close to the rut. By muzzleloader season, the deer location and habits are completely different because of rifle season, fewer hunters, and the timing with the first rut.

Access to private land improves, public land is usually void of hunters. It can be cold though!