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Title: Electronic Rifle Not Allowed During Muzzleloader Season
Post by: mudbrook on October 09, 2007, 09:41:12 AM
Electronic Rifle Not Allowed During Muzzleloader Season

By FRANK SARGEANT

Published: Oct 3, 2007

When is a primitive weapon no longer primitive? When it gets a battery-powered ignition, says Capt. John Miller of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission's Division of Law Enforcement.

The state's muzzleloader season, which begins Oct. 13 in the Southern Zone and Nov. 10 in the Central Zone, is designed for the use of single-shot rifles that are loaded from the firing end with separate charges of powder and projectile or bullet, rather than from the breech or back end with a brass cartridge that combines powder, projectile and firing charge or primer.

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