GB-Smurf

Have you heard about any meetings to discuss the future of ML hunting in Idaho??? I keep watching the commiss meetings - but they seem to be avaoiding it like a plague...

I got a reply to an email last week.

The Commission will consider changes to the muzzleloader equipment rules
in January. The Department will solicit public comment on a proposal
(currently being developed) in December. There will be public meetings
held throughout the state, and a press release announcing opportunity
for public review and comment. We'll also post information regarding
potential changes on our website.

I do anticipate changes for 2008, at a minimum allowing in-line
muzzleloaders.

Bradley B. Compton
State Big Game Manager
Idaho Department of Fish & Game
PO Box 25, 600 S. Walnut
Boise, ID 83707
(208) 334-2920
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GB-Smurf

Thanks - I just sent him an e-mail also... I want to get sabots back also... If PA allows the use of sabots in their ML hunts even their flintlock hunts it seems to me Idaho with the greater ranges could allow it...

Now this is a Traditional Rifle

Goatbrother,
I think you have made yer self a good Traditional Rifle there.
That Knot Hole Stock must have been a real chore to find there. I been lookin at a maple with a Knot hole in it to try thatsame thing

MANY things go in cycles. MANY "smart" people are too "smart" to remember that little fact.

Smoke and mirrors, just as I suspected all along.

Shore do look like a real PITA you went to when a decent sidelock rifle with a scope on it would have done the same thing for you!

But you see, I own 10 White inlines and no flintlocks. A flinter would have cost ????? and my little device cost less than $5.00. This whole rule change in Idaho was the result of a small vocal group who have thier nose out of joint because they can't stand to have anyone hunt with a gun that does not look like thier fantasy world idea of what a muzzleloader should look like. Never mind that both styles of gun, given like projectile and powder charge will perform the same (velocity, energy and trajectory). Add to that a F&G department and commissioneers thatare willing to lie about overharvests and game population numbers in order to facilitate a vocal few.

I am an AMERICAN and I will not be treated like some kind of crimminal or other low life second or third class citizen just because I choose to hunt with a modern looking gun.

BTW, your beautiful scoped rifle would not be allowedin any tradtionalmuzzleloader season in Idaho, too bad cause it sure does shoot good. And your velocity numbers make my point, that it matters not the mechanism that lights the fire. Your load is a stout one but very accurate, your target also sugests that you are an excellent marksman too.