>>>I have a 50 caliber Thompson and a 54 caliber Lyman. The Thompson has taken many many deer. I shoot round ball only through my Lyman, and I might try to post somewhere with that next year and see if I can get lucky.
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>>I'd like to try muzzle loading for elk in Colorado, but they gone crazy out there against illegal (non resident) hunters! I've even thought about trying to organize a group to fight the disparity between the resident hunting fees and non-resident. My point is that if we are hunting the National Forests, we should all pay the same. The game wardens counter saying the state owns the animals. I counter that by saying it simply isn't true. If an elk is living near the border of Colorado and Wyoming and drifts over into Wyoming, Colorado doesn't go after that animal. Wyoming will at that point decide they own the animal.
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>>Being from a southern state, I am acutely aware that it is the United States government who owns the animals. As a citizen, I should have equal access to them! What do you think?
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>"Access"? ;-) You mean the kind of access where you take your gun and kill them? This is not original but I think hunting will be a sport when the animals can shoot back.

Well, if that's the only kind of hunting you want to do, you might consider hunting Grizzly Bears with a knife!