"This isn't Kansas anymore, Toto". And these aren't muzzle loaders anymore, except in the sense that they're loaded from the muzzle. As soon as Fish&Game Departments instituted special ML seasons as a nod to traditionalists, as like for archers, to practice an arcane sport, human nature being what it is the arms race began. Instead of refining/practicing hunting skills to get up close and personal with the deer to make a clean one shot kill, we've substituted technology.
I'm already sorry I brought it up. The toothpaste can't be squeezed back into the tube.
You still burning wood to cook, coal oil to light and trekking across 2' of snow to get to the outhouse at 3 in the morning to take a dump?
Have a hand pump on the kitchen counter to fill the cook pot?
