Howdy
The weather is Excellent . Next weekend is muzzle loading season .Will take my ole trusty smoke pole out to try and take some fresh venison . Maybe NEXT year the laws will change letting hunters have a choice . It would be nice to use a 1873 Winchester with a black powder load in early BP season . What's you opinion on this should we be able to use a black powder cartridge gun in the muzzle loader season ? Don't forget that most of the modern muzzle loaders are the new fangled in lines which are scoped out 200+ yard rifles .
I cant see it ever going that way because the conservation officers wouldn't be able to prove what type of powder is in the cartridges unless they make you take them apart or shoot them all.
The argument would be you can reload the cartridge gun so much faster. It's true I can shoot my inline muzzleloader with a scope at great distances but its pretty much a one shot deal at a deer.
Personally I don't have much of an opinion since with the modern inline scoped muzzleloaders it has nearly defeated the whole purpose of the muzzle loading season anyway. Other than the follow up shot there isn't a lot of disadvantage under most shooting situations for Kentucky dear hunting.
I do hunt a couple farms where 200+ shots are very common and close to 400 is not an unusual but most of my hunting spots are under 100 yard shots.
You could scope a 45-70 with BP and handle most of the same shots we do with modern magnum rounds.