Adam... first off a cross bow and an inline are in no way apples and apples... nor are they even apples and oranges.
A cross bow is not a bow in the language of the NBEF/NBEP. The definition of a bow by these organizations is that a bow is one that is hand held, hand drawn, and released with nothing attached to the bow that will allow the bow to be mechanically held in a drawn or cocked position.
Therefore, there is a legitimate exclusion to the use of a crossbow in a "bowhunting only" season. With muzzleloaders, all guns are loaded from the muzzle. There is little to differentiate the mechanics of an inline to that of the sidelock regardless of the rhetoric.
An inline is loaded from the muzzle. It has to be cocked in order to fire. It has to be aimed in order to hit something. It has a lock, a stock and a barrel. So far, what is there to separate them from a sidelock? Nothing that I can see.
There is nothing about an inline per se that should keep them from a muzzleloader season. Now if you have a flintlock only season, that is one thing. That would be like saying you have a longbow only season. That is quite legitimate. To say that you have an archery season would then include all forms of archery equipment, including the compound bow with its various forms of letoff.
Now I have a question for you Adam... What about this gun...
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Any problem with this gun?
Aloha... Tom
