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Stealthycat, I read your previous crossbow debates, responded, so I'm back again. While your at it how about the modern day rifle to ones of the old western days or beyond. Or what about pistols, and revolvers of the same. Heck while going at it why not look into sling shots, and bb guns!!!!!!!!

In my state anything over .40 can be used but cannot have a scope with magnification over 1x.In all truth I don't care what people use as long as they are safe and ethical about their hunting. We have an overabundance of deer in my state along with cwd, so every extra hunter and day of deer season helps. Like with any other kind of gun, I reserve the right to poke fun at those who use pimp guns. I was reading a North American Hunter magazine awhile back which had an article about a guy who used a muzzleloader to score a super grandslam- getting a trophy of each species of big game in north America. This is a huge accomplishment with any kind of weapon used, though the rifle he used was so Butt ugly that I wouldn't want to be in the same photograph as it. It was a stainless knight inline with a black plastic stock with the brand name Knight written in huge white letters on both sides of the stock. I realize that the company probably sponsored his huinting, but the rifle he had was definately a pimp gun. Give me a nice piece of Walnut or Curly Maple anyday.

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Briman that guy your referring to is: Jim Shockey. Yes, Knight is his main sponser. He is all about promoting himself and those who helped him get where he is today, for sure. But no different than nascar drivers or tiger woods.

Scopes are illegal on muzzleloaders here in Georgia. I have found my caplock just as good as most inlines that aren't magnums. I think The challenge in hunting with any muzzleloader is about the same as a single shot rifle. Only one shot.

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I don't think that the inline offers much of an advantage as long as it is not scoped.In Colorado(were I live)scopes are not permitted.My percussion shoots as well as an open sighted inline at a reasonable (100-150yrds)"HUNTING" shot distance.You have to be able to shoot 250-300yrds with an open sighted ML to even worry about that distance.But I'll stick with my side-lock.It's fun to be Davy Crockett for a week!!!!!!!!

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eldeguello - Maybe I'm wrong then. I know the last muzzleloader I had was the most accurate I've ever owned. It was a TC Thunderhawk with a really cool thumbhole grip stock. I put a 2x7 Leopuld on it and using sabots it was very accurate. Maybe the scopes really make them 200 yard guns ?? I remember thinking 75 yards was a long shot in the late 80's when I was a kid and muzzleloading.






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I did not take the time to read through all of the posts so if I repeat anything here let me apologize in advance.

I hunt with a Hawkin style percussion cap rifle. Why? Because that's what I like. I feel in-lines are nothing more than a natural progression of a particular type gun technology. The only real advantage they have over percussion cap or flint-lock guns is their ignition system; It's enclosed (in the newer models), fires hotter and more reliably and it lights the charge from the rear rather than from the side. As far as them being more powerful or more accurate? If you were to take a percussion or flint-lock rifle and give it a sabot or conical-friendly twist such as what you find in the in-lines I think you'd get the same power and accuracy. I think they have a place in the woods along side the traditional guns.

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Short answer,no I don't.Shoot what you like as long as it loads from the front.

Hunting is not a sport,it's a lifestyle.