All rise......a few Judge Mentals are in the building. Concerned with the business of others for no good reason at all.....just their own personal spite.
Just another way to divide hunters, I see. Way to go, haters. This is the tactic the anti's love to use on us.....divide and conquer has worked wonders for the copper bullet industry with their lead bans. So are inlines next? Then what?
People shooting one sort of gun, teaming up on people shooting another sort of gun, for no other reason than they don't like that that gun, isn't their gun. Grow up.
Personally, I bought my inline muzzleloader to use for year-around hunting as my main hunting arm. I can hunt with whatever gun I want here, yet I chose an inline muzzleloader for it's ability to shoot a big, heavy, non-expanding boolit I can make myself that takes game down FAST, flexibility and availability of loading components, ability to easily clean, it's being well suited for the use of a scope (key to ethical shot placement in low-light conditions), the ability to make my own boolits and propellent, and last but not least I am a single-shot hunter at heart.
I would get the same ballistic performance out of a sidelock, as I would an inline if I simply put a scope on that sidelock. The inline is simply easier to clean/maintain/carry than the sidelock, and designed in a somewhat more modular fashion.
To buy a real nice inline, is probably much cheaper than buying an equally nice sidelock IMO. I'm talking the really nice ones.
I didn't put in for any muzzleloader tags, because my muzzleloader isn't legal for those seasons. This muzzleloader was designed for using a scope (a great tool for putting a good shot on a critter in the thick, dark PNW rain forest), and isn't even tapped for open sights because of this. Open sights won't work on this gun.
I bought this muzzleloader to hunt Mountain Lion on the wet-side of Oregon, along with other big game. Hopefully using a self-cast boolit, self-made Black Powder, and a musket cap. Cause that is my style!
Watch for me in the muzzleloading record books in the Mountain Lion section....that's my aim.