Driftwood outdoors: Practice, quality gun make good shot

Muzzleloaders have come a long way in the past few years.

From the days of Daniel Boone and his boys stalking the banks of the Missouri River, up until the early 1990s, there wasn’t much change in muzzleoading rifles. With the invention of the inline muzzleloader, accuracy has been taken to a whole new level.

Today, there are several manufacturers building quality muzzleloaders, and most of these guns are capable of being precisely accurate at 200 yards. Learning how to maximize a muzzleloader may be a bit more difficult than a standard cartridge rifle. Here’s a look at a few important pieces of the muzzleloading puzzle.

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