Traditional...Becoming the past?

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Preachin' to the choir on this one! I don't "hate" inline users, but they have certainly bastardized the muzzleloading season here in MI. What was originally meant to be a primative season was quickly overshadowed by wording..........because it is termed "muzzleloading", anything that loads from the muzzle is considered a "muzzleloader" .........even if it shoots plastic sabots, powerbelts, 5 pyrodex pellets, ect. Wouldn't mind hunting with these boys if they wanted to load loose powder and shoot a lead projectile (no plastic), but they insist on stretching the range farther and farther......heard a claim of 400 yard shots this past fall. .....to me, that ain't what muzzleloading is all about! 'Plastic and pellets' will never touch this child's bore!

Like Adam, I grew up watching Fess Parker as Daniel Boone, watched "drums along the Mohawk", "Unconquered", "The northwest passage", and a serial of James Fennimore Cooper's "last of the mohicans" on CBC television. I used to pretend to be those people in the fields and woodlots around my home as I grew up. Those films/shows inspired me to read real accounts of those people, and I became a history buff (...and the rest is history ) As long as they make movies like "last of the Mohicans (with Daniel Day Lewis) and "The Patriot", I'll be pouring black powder down the muzzle of a musket!