When Washington made 209 primers legal people were so worried about modern hunters jumping ship and it being crowded and whatnot and I thought how dumb, it’s not like they’re offering scopes. It’s still one shot, you still gotta get close.
Scope though? Okay. I’m there with everyone. Muzzleloaders are supposed to be a more primitive method of harvest, and as such they get their own season. If you toss a scope on a muzzleloader, well the ones they make these days you now have a rifle. I understand older folks still want to hunt, and perhaps they can eventually have a “over 65 can use a scope” rule or something along those lines, but if we start adding scopes it’s just gonna become early modern rifle - same pumpkin patch, same bunch of idiots driving around the woods scoping people with their muzzleloader and hoping a deer jumps out.