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Muzzleloader Hunting
Motivation for ML hunting restrictions
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2834326" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>So what's an ethical range 200? 100? 50?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]468100[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This picture was taken the first night of my bison hunt, those bison were 100 yards or less but I didn't shoot as my vernier sights were too dark to comfortably take a heart shot. Now imagine it's the last night of a hunt and that shot is your last chance to get an animal or you just wasted thousands of dollar to go for a walk. You've put in tons of time and effort to get that close, how many hunters are going to risk a marginal shot with irons that easily could have been made with a scope? </p><p> </p><p>The better way to restrict it would have been to limit the effective range of the rifle rather than make everyone's shots less accurate regardless of range.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You forget to mention that we have two separate muzzleloader seasons, an unrestricted doe season for a week in October and the flintlock season after Christmas when most hunters are done for the year. I picked up a smokeless muzzleloader when the game commission went back to the split buck and doe season. The flintlock wasn't getting it done in the early season when we had an increased emphasis to take does in muzzleloader since we couldn't during the first week of rifle. Now that the rifle season has changed back if we could hunt bucks in the early season with a flintlock I might switch back.</p><p> </p><p>The main issue I have with the ruling is that they only restricted scopes, none of the other equipment that makes a long range muzzleloader a long range muzzleloader. As I stated in another thread on this topic putting the best scope in the word on a 66 twist flintlock shooting round balls doesn't make it a 400 yard rifle but taking the scope off a precision muzzleloader still lets you make 400 yard shots under proper conditions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2834326, member: 36999"] So what’s an ethical range 200? 100? 50? [ATTACH type="full"]468100[/ATTACH] This picture was taken the first night of my bison hunt, those bison were 100 yards or less but I didn’t shoot as my vernier sights were too dark to comfortably take a heart shot. Now imagine it’s the last night of a hunt and that shot is your last chance to get an animal or you just wasted thousands of dollar to go for a walk. You’ve put in tons of time and effort to get that close, how many hunters are going to risk a marginal shot with irons that easily could have been made with a scope? The better way to restrict it would have been to limit the effective range of the rifle rather than make everyone’s shots less accurate regardless of range. You forget to mention that we have two separate muzzleloader seasons, an unrestricted doe season for a week in October and the flintlock season after Christmas when most hunters are done for the year. I picked up a smokeless muzzleloader when the game commission went back to the split buck and doe season. The flintlock wasn’t getting it done in the early season when we had an increased emphasis to take does in muzzleloader since we couldn’t during the first week of rifle. Now that the rifle season has changed back if we could hunt bucks in the early season with a flintlock I might switch back. The main issue I have with the ruling is that they only restricted scopes, none of the other equipment that makes a long range muzzleloader a long range muzzleloader. As I stated in another thread on this topic putting the best scope in the word on a 66 twist flintlock shooting round balls doesn’t make it a 400 yard rifle but taking the scope off a precision muzzleloader still lets you make 400 yard shots under proper conditions. [/QUOTE]
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