We had way more fun when a lot of units were open for either sex deer and elk and you could hunt coweeman all day and only see one or two other hunters. You could spend 3 hours getting close only to have wet powder and then try again later in the next cut.
Then inlines gained popularity and all the sudden guys everywhere wearing blue jeans, driving to landings, glassing while smoking and talking loudly with engines still running.
Yes, we were down in the bottoms of those cuts and tree lines already, been there for years and still watch guys road hunting.
Yes, love my inline now. I take full advantage of what's legal. I shoot very comfortably out to 300 yards with peep/globe sights and know each of my guns ballistics. My White has just over 10.5 feet of drop with a 460 grain Bullet at 300 yards. I took one follow up shot on a spike elk last year at 325/yards and hit it because I am comfortable doing it and know the gun is capable. That was fun.
But I really miss the good days before inlines became so popular. You haven't experienced muzzeloading until you try to keep the powder dry all day in the rain so you can take a shot with patched round balls from an old kit gun or Kentucky long...
