Finally, somebody voices a good opinion

[shoot2reload]

There's evidently a regulatory process before they implement the new hunting rules for the following year in Virginia. Here's a smokeless muzzleloading topic:

www.dgif.virginia.gov/regulations/comment2009/view-comment.asp?id=1012

[chuck41]

Once again it brings up the question, "Why do they get the dumbest among us to write the rules for the rest to follow?"
Can you imagine how some enforcement officer is going to try to interpret that in the field?

[sw]

I guess that the intent is to have a powerful enough load for a clean harvest. That said, obviously smokeless powder's characteristics do not fit in to the bill maker's thought pattern. I never cease to be amazed at various laws/etc that affect us.