I miss muzzle loading season.

[cas]

I used to love muzzle loading season, I got to hunt how I wanted, where I wanted with no worries, no fears. 

I still love my muzzleloaders and every few years I hunt with them in the gun season, my caplocks and flintlocks. But I gave up on the muzzle loading season.    It's kind of pointless now. 

The last year I hunted it, between bow season and gun season, I spent 19 days in the woods.  I saw 3 other hunters in the woods.

Then in the muzzleloading season I hunted 1.5 days....  and ran into 7 other hunters. Good lord. 

Phooey on that mess. 

[pitweiler]

I was going to buy a muzzy, but decided if I choose another implement it will be a bow. 

[kpkot]

more deer for us. Gotta be in it to win it.

[cas]

Like trying to find deer in a crowded subway car.

[The_Real_TCIII]

I see tons of guys hunting the late season, even the final Tuesday.


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[BowmanMike]

Nice thing about muzzle season is the deer are almost back to normal behaviour by then.

[slayer]

i see very few hunters and hear even less shots. usually its my gun making noise I agree with  @kpkot. you gotta be in it to win it. I will take my days off during the late season. see ya boss I gotta hunt.

[G-Man]

All depends area your in and what the weather is doing.. if it's cold and snowy during gun many hunters give up and muzzleloader season is all but abandoned.. mild weather and its packed..

[wildcat junkie]

On 12/1/2018 at 2:46 PM, cas said:

I used to love muzzle loading season, I got to hunt how I wanted, where I wanted with no worries, no fears. 

I still love my muzzleloaders and every few years I hunt with them in the gun season, my caplocks and flintlocks. But I gave up on the muzzle loading season.    It's kind of pointless now. 

The last year I hunted it, between bow season and gun season, I spent 19 days in the woods.  I saw 3 other hunters in the woods.

Then in the muzzleloading season I hunted 1.5 days....  and ran into 7 other hunters. Good lord. 

Phooey on that mess. 

The same thing happened in Indiana once inlines and scopes came to the fray.  ML seasons used to be for those that were willing to learn how to care for and use traditional equipment.

Now it's management tool and a cash cow for corporate interests.

[The_Real_TCIII]

Even as a guy with a "primitive" TC Encore 209x50 I'd still be all for that season being "traditional" like Pennsylvania. Id be out there with my Hawken misfiring, having a ball. As it is now its just nine more days of rifle season