muzzleloader OK in the shotgun only zones?

[Whiterabbit]

Hi guys,

sounds like a stupid question, but I learned that some other states allow muzzleloader hunting in shotgun-only zones. Is it the same in CA? for those that read the absolute letter of the law. kosher? or is it no good?

I ask because my open sight muzzleloader is way more accurate than my scoped slug gun.

[jmonte35]

No shotgun only is shotgun only.......

Muzzleloader is muzzleloader.....

I've never hunted a state where they are interchangable where regs specify shotguns or muzzleloaders...

[180ls1]

Im pretty sure thats a big no no

[5shot]

In California the shooting regulations for unincorporated areas are set by County Ordnance. So it differs from county to county. As a example, in our county "shotgun areas" are restricted to shot shell loads with shot less then 1/2 the size of the bore, and no single projectiles.

[CSACANNONEER]

Muzzleloading shotguns should be just fine.

[Bull's_eye]

Do you guys know what makes them designate areas as shotgun only? I was under the impression that smaller wildlife areas or those that were flatter with lack of a backstop tend to be shotgun only.

[NickTheGreek]

Do you guys know what makes them designate areas as shotgun only? I was under the impression that smaller wildlife areas or those that were flatter with lack of a backstop tend to be shotgun only.

Usually it has to do with the proximity to populated areas as well as the landscape and whatever the hippy lobbyists pushed for.

[Whiterabbit]

Muzzleloading shotguns should be just fine.

This is what I may be looking at next. muzzleloader conversions. I hear some people fit breechplugs, some people have tried just cutting the plastic off a shotshell and used that as a primer carrier, then pour the goex right down their rifled slug barrel.