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Originally posted by Adam Helmer
roundball,
Thanks for sharing your excellent letter. I agree, the "Traditional Muzzleloader Season" is for the traditional muzzleloaders.
I like your theme (and I now paraphrase a bit) that the traditional arms require attention to details while the modern MLs are a shortcut for many folks who want to hunt a second season with not too much effort on their part.
Again, I like your letter and you state my feelings very well.
Adam
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Yes, it's pretty obvious to most people...to be clear, there's nothing wrong at all with anybody choosing to use some different form of firearm for deer hunting...different noses and all that.
But what is disgusting is the common theme of excuses among 99% of those who use those other choices in what were clearly established as traditional muzzleloading seasons...to cheat by using technology to maximum advantage because it's easy...and then tries to rationalize / defend doing it on the most ridiculous justification...it fools no experienced, thinking adult what-so-ever.
If somebody wants to use a long range high tech scope sighted centerfire ballistic comparable rifle in traditional ML seasons they need to at least be man enough about it to just stand up and say so...all the other retoric is just self serving hot air to asuage their guilty consciences becase they KNOW they're cheating their way into traditional muzzleloading seasons just to get an extra week of deer hunting for more chances to fill their tags. At least honesty can be respected.
Next time one of them says they're not doing that, saying they're using all the new high tech stuff because "they like it", ask them if they also use it to hunt through the entire deer season, not just the special muzzleloading week, etc...and you'll get a new list of excuses why they don't do that.
By contrast, ask dedicated traditional muzzleloder hunters if they use their sidelocks right on during the whole deer season and you'll get a long list of people who do.
And the hot air in the high performance advocate's claim of "more reliable terminal ballsitics out to 200yds and beyond" is two fold:
1) all the wannbe deer hunters will try those shots and wound many, many animals without killing them mercifully on the spot...if they hit them at all.
2) Traditional muzzleloader hunters know better than to take shots like that...and don't WANT to in the first place...no challenge to it.
That's why several Remingtons & Leupolds lay oiled in their cases in my safe...anybody can kill a deer with a modern high powered scoped rifle like my Remingtons & Leupolds...and the modern hi tech space guns are no different.
I'm just glad all the great men of the early to mid 1900s who pioneered and championed the focus on our heritage, the early American muzzleloading era, got traditional muzzleloading seasons established in every state in the country, are not here to see how all their work is being bastardized by all the space gun technology...laser range finder scopes, modern smokeless powder, electronic ignition...simply unbelievable
