My inlines will out shoot many CFs of a similar caliber so i have no need or desire to down grade. I use mine during our rifle season. Have for more years than i can remember. Our so called muzzleloader season is after firearms so there is zero motivation for a primitive rifle in my arsenal. If they did offer a early season "traditional sidelock" i would build a fast twist 45 or 40cal and still have a very lethal 200 yard rig.
So what is the damn point of it anyway? Oh yeah it would be just peachy using something similar to 451 Gibbs to do the exact same thing i do now. We could all be pals and sing around a camp fire.
Just for the record ive been using 45cal conicals and rather light amounts of powder for the last few seasons. Love it just because its simple and will shoot sub MOA at 100yards. Lord have mercy though im doing it with a Knight 45cal 1-20 inline. Not sure how that is any different than doing the same thing with a sidelock.
Funny part is, i NEVER see a inline shooter crying about a guy using a sidelock during a ML season but God forbid when that is reversed. You guys bawl and bellyache worse than babies on some forums. Hell there is even a forum that just the mention of an inline or sabots will get you banned. You guys need a safe place or in this case "safe woods" where them mean ole inline guys cant hunt with you.
You sound "disturbed." Take a deep breath.
You are missing the point entirely. Because your in-line can easily take a deer at 200 yards is precisely why I don't like it. Other than loading from the muzzle what difference is it from any other modern rifle? You probably put a scope on it, too.
I often use a flintlock smoothbore that can only accurately throw a .60 caliber round ball about 50 yards. Beyond that range it goes way off target. Even with my .50 percussion longrifle I keep all my shots at game at 75 yards or less. A little more than bow and arrow range. That adds to the challenge.
It is not about sniping deer at long range. Getting a deer at all really doesn't matter. Here is the motivation; It is all about the challenge of getting close to the game, a reverence for history and tradition, and a love for "the old ways".
Apparently you don't have any of that. And, that's okay. Hunt how and with whatever you like. I will, too.
However, everyone should be aware that it was muzzleloaders and re-enactors back in the 1960's who first started pushing for a "primitive firearms hunting season". Various states were beginning to enact legislation to that purpose when the in-line came along. It was never the original intent for a modern muzzle loading rifle to be included, but of course, it has been. Of course some of the states did not enact a muzzleloader season until after in-lines had been well established. So, to probably most legislators, a muzzle loader is a muzzle loader.
Personally, I absolutely despise in-lines because I believe they have corrupted the muzzleloading hunting seasons. But, I'm not telling anyone not to use one. Again I say; Use what you like.
The controversy between tradition and modern muzzleloaders has been volatile ever since the in-line came on the scene. It has died down a lot in recent years, but it does continue to linger on, maybe especially with old hard headed Luddites like me.
Cheers
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you can hunt with a bow during gun season as well….
Pennsylvania's flintlock season allows sabots so think again.
