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Great thread. some gorgeous guns.
They should give traditional their own season or move inlines to rifle season. I think PA does that don't they?
Yeah, they really need to break it up, the woods are packed in December.
Sorry, hunting numbers are waning, and so is muzzleloading, or at least traditional by the looks of the catalogs.
I can't really support doing something that could potentially work to reduce those numbers just so a select group can feel special about themselves.
I see few enough folks out bow hunting when the weather is nice, I have a hard time believing a lot more folks are tying things up when the weather worsens in December.
If anything, they need to expand the muzzleloading season in MI. For all they're doing to cut down on the herd, you'd think they could do that.
Anyways, that's the point of view of a bitter former muzzleloading hunter. The private land I used to hunt got gobbled up, and the short season in December makes it challenging to get away to hunt public land somewhere. And before anyone says it, I hunt with a Hawken. I appreciate that inlines are easier to shoot well, but a Hawken is easier to keep running.