Both the rifle and muzzleloader seasons were 9 days long, so there were 818 rifle hunters per day and 256 muzzleloader hunters per day in the hunt unit. The same unit had only 745 muzzleloader hunters that totaled 2,304 hunter days in the field. Last year my hunting unit had 2,453 hunters in the field for the mule deer rifle season and they totaled 7,359 total hunter days. I can’t say the same for the centerfire seasons. I like the fact that I have seen only two other hunters during the past three and a half muzzleloader hunting seasons (mule deer and elk combined), and both of the hunters I did see were on the road and at the trail head.
I have also had good luck and drew tags for the muzzleloader mule deer season four years in a row. But in the meantime, I can always count on getting spike elk and cow tags. It currently takes about 12 years to draw the Limited Entry Bull Elk tag in my area. Like most places, I live in an area where the coveted Limited Entry tags are hard to draw. I guess in a way it’s like the love-hate relationship between people that ride Harleys and those that ride crotch rockets, they all love motorcycles and they have bug stains on their teeth. Not sure how I could ruin someone’s season when I’ve never see anybody in the woods. We might be uneducated and we might be inexperienced in the ways of true primitive weapons, but we are not breaking any laws and we aren’t trying to ruin anyone’s hunting season. It’s true, us new-comers to shooting muzzleloaders don’t understand or appreciate the effort some of the old-timers went through to establish the first primitive weapon hunting seasons and yes, in some states, we get to hunt the same season they do with our modern inline rifles. Scopes were even developed before 1860 and that meant they were being mounted on muzzleloaders. The design just didn’t catch on because the owners couldn’t fix them in the field like they could with side lock guns. I guess they don’t know that inline models were also available back in the day. Somehow, they feel that only flint locks or cap locks are worthy of special hunting seasons. I have not experienced it personally, but there are some flint-lock and cap-lock muzzleloader hunters that have quite a bit of animosity for their modern inline shooting brethren. Traditional Old School vs Modern Inline Muzzleloaders But compared with centerfire rifles, the numbers of muzzleloader hunters is just a drop in the bucket. Until recently, there has been a downward trend in the total number people that hunt, but it seems like more and more people are getting into shooting and hunting with muzzleloaders, especially the modern in-line rifles. Challenge of getting close for one shot, one clean kill from a cold bore.Special hunt seasons- earlier hunt seasons when animals are in rut- or less crowded hunt seasons.Challenge of accurate shooting from individually hand loaded shots.There seem to be three main reasons why we shoot and hunt with muzzleloaders: I know they are out there, but I have yet to meet a person that shoots a muzzleloader but doesn’t hunt with it. Since I started shooting a muzzleloader, I have been interested in why other people shoot them as well.
Top 3 Reasons Why Owners Love To Shoot and Hunt with a Muzzleloader I also like shooting my centerfire hunting rifles, but shooting a tight group with any of those rifles is not as challenging, so for me, it’s not as much fun or as satisfying as shooting a nice group with my muzzleloader, especially since I can’t use a magnified scope. Love the smell of black powder smoke in the morning! Getting in some practice shooting with my TC Muzzleloader.
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