>We do that up here in New York as well, although black powder is more
>generically a "muzzleloader" season; you don't have to actually use
>black powder, you can load up with smokeless if you like. The state
>discourages doing both; it's either/or unless you pay for the super
>ultra special license that costs a lot of money.

I'm pretty sure it's just a name thing (I may even have the actual name wrong an just call them 'black powder' rifles in my head.)

>>Ah, of course. And the manufacturers have cannily realized that
>>there's a ready (and probably larger than the vintage-repros one)
>>market of people who are inclined to ignore the spirit of that rule
>>entirely and kit themselves out with hyper-advanced equipment that has
>>laser sights
>
>Interestingly, it is completely and utterly illegal to hunt here in
>NYS with a laser sight of any kind. Your scope can be as advanced as
>you like in all other ways, but it can't project a beam or light of
>any sort.

..you know, I've never thought to look in any state I've hunted in? I've made my position wrt laser sights clear elsewhere on this board, so it's never been relevant to my interests.

>Really, making antique or obsolete technology using modern methods
>isn't particularly odd or weird.

Or making a trebuchet out of modern steel that throws pumpkins. Or heck, even taking a 'classic' car, but fitting modern safety equipment into it. People like taking something that has cachet (and probably because of the myth space that both the revolution and civil war take up, muzzleloaded weapons have a lot of cache with those of us from the United States.

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