Muzzleloading

Muzzleloading

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Muzzleloading.

Sportsman's Warehouse sales associate Jonathan Silas gave me a lot of information about muzzleloading. Not only the equipment but the personality of muzzleloader hunters. " We carry quite a few models from Traditions, the newer Vortech Northwest magnums are the ones they made specifically for the Pacific Northwest in order to make them legal in Washington and Oregon, we carry a lot of the Knight models, the Big Horn or the extreme which is the newer bolt action style, they are all Washington legal as well. Some states allow you to mock up the muzzleloader so it is just like a modern rifle. Washington state does not. It has to be a musket cap style ignition or a number 11 cap. You cannot use the modern primers. You cannot have any kind of magnified optics on it. It has to be standard normal iron sights. They just allowed us to use fiber optics recently. Washington muzzleloaders also have to have an exposed to breech so that it is open to the elements, it cannot be enclosed at all. I guess the philosophy behind a muzzle loading hunter is going back to the old Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett days. It is definitely more of a traditional approach. A lot of people like it because it is more of a challenge. You get your one shot and if you're lucky the animal will stick around if you missed. If you do miss it's kind of like what we used to see in the movies correct? Yes. It's just like the old days where there is one round at a time. You measure your powder out. Put in your patch and your ball.

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