And another state has done it right...Minnesota

[roundball]

This years ML season in MN prohibits the use of "Nitro or Smokelesss" powder ML firearms during the regular ML season.

As it should be...sounds like the citizens and wildlife department in Minn. have their heads screwed on straight...kudos to intelligent people making intelligent decisions.

[Randy Wakeman]

"Another state has done it right" - operationalize the word "right" for me. What is right in your eyes doesn't mean it's right in the next guys eyes.

Right for "Who," and based on what?

This is old news-- and it didn't come from the Minnesota DNR. Only certain types of "smokesless" powders are affected, and it doesn't appear it will last long.

It is tragic when the use of a state's resources is attempted to be defined as the personal wishes of one individual; a non-resident no less.

Instead of being pleased that we can all hunt our way, with the equipment we choose-- sometimes, it just isn't enough. A few individuals won't be happy until everybody is just like them. It is menacing dogma of intolerance.

Just like the Puritans that came to this country for freedom of worship, freedom of lifestyle-- once achieving that, they quickly denied to others the very freedom of choice they themselves once so fervently sought.

[Scott]

I hope its repealed soon.

I dont care what the next person shoots as long as they go by the game laws, why should they care if i do the same?

[smokepolehall]

I personally feel if its a primitive weapon season then blk. powder should be used in yer ML's! Now if its a ML season then that opens the field up for all what ever ML or powder they choose. I use only blk. powder regardless of the season. I just enjoy shooting and hunting my game with it.

[smokeybear]

Here in KY we have certain wildlife management areas set aside that only allow "pioneer weapons" or "primitive weapons". Muzzleloaders, as I understand it, must be side-locks with open sights only and must use caps (no 209 primers allowed). Up until recently compound bows were not allowed for use in these areas either. Archery equipment had to be long bows or recurves only. I see nothing wrong with setting certain areas aside for such hunting but to do it on a statewide scale I just think is one step closer to banning all types of hunting all the way around. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with using modern technology. I mean do the die hards that only believe in the "primitive pioneer weapons only" stuff still drive there vehicles to their hunting spots. If they do, I think that is not right, they should have to ride a horse to and from the hunting area....no flashlights should be used either....etc...

I say to each their own. If you prefer the side lock muzzleloaders with open sights and round balls, then go for it. To me though, any muzzleloading firearm should be allowed during a muzzleloader season.

[Mobe]

Here in KY we have certain wildlife management areas set aside that only allow "pioneer weapons" or "primitive weapons". Muzzleloaders, as I understand it, must be side-locks with open sights only and must use caps (no 209 primers allowed)


Interesting they have modernized it to include cap locks as the average pioneer gun was more commonly flintlock and wheelgun.
Caps came later (1805). Smokeless powder came in 1846 but was unstable use until the 1880's. So it's not really a modern powder being 150 years old.
Every state has their own laws and we must abide by them or we become poachers.
I am happy to see states that allow all forms of muzzleloader weapons and powders available for said guns.
The choice of which one each uses is personal unless the state restricts it. The more modern powders "smokeless" allow a shooter to see faster if he/she has made a good shot by watching the reaction to the shot.
Having the deer disappear before the cloud goes away makes it harder to find.