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Below are the regulations for the use of primitive weapons in Montana's special seasons and in specific areas. If you want to hunt the general season in Montana, the muzzleloader restrictions do not apply and you can use any kind of muzzleloader or high-powered rifle including 22 long rifle. We know that's not cricket, but it is legal. I've never seen nothing in the regulations, so apparently you could sneak up and stabbed them with a knife If you're so inclined. Cross bows, regular archery, all all legal during the general season. The ones listed below are just for what they are intended to be."Tradition" and "traditional" are pretty vague ways to describe anything. They are very subjective ideas and can be used for almost anything. Considering current attention spans an Apple iphone could be considered a "traditional" cell phone. A lever action rifle has been around seemingly forever by comparison and some might call it traditional. Compare any muzzleloader to a bow, and how long those have been used, and it would barely seem to be a tradition.
p.s. im just being a devils advocate here. i dont truly have an opinion about traditional hunting seasons.
Squint
Muzzleloader Heritage Hunting Season Lawful Weapons 87-1-304(9): Plain lead projectiles and a muzzleloading rifle that is charged with loose black powder, loose pyrodex, or an equivalent loose black powder substitute, and ignited by a flintlock, wheel lock, matchlock, or percussion mechanism using a percussion or musket cap. The muzzleloading rifle must be a minimum of .45 caliber and may not have more than two barrels. Additionally, 87-6-401(1), a hunter may not use a muzzleloading rifle that requires insertion of a cap or primer into the open breech of the barrel, is capable of being loaded from the breech, or is mounted with an optical magnification device. Use of prepared paper or metallic cartridges, sabots, gas checks, or other similar power and range-enhancing manufactured loads that enclose the projectile from the rifling or bore of the firearm is also prohibited.
Muzzleloader (this definition is strictly for the use of muzzloaders in weapons restriction areas. See the Muzzleloader Heritage Season Lawful Weapons section on page 24 for information regarding hunting during the Dec 11 - 19 heritage muzzloader season) • Must not be capable of being loaded from the breech of the barrel; • May not be loaded with any preprepared paper or metallic cartridges; • must be charged with black powder, pyrodex, or an equivalent; • Must be ignited by a percussion, flintlock, matchlock, or wheelock mechanism; • Must be a minimum of .45 caliber; • May have no more than two barrels; • Must only use plain lead projectiles; • Sabots or other similar power and range-enhancing manufactured loads that enclose the projectile from the rifling or bore of the firearm are prohibited. “Skirts” or gas checks on the base of a projectile are acceptable.