inline recommendations......: Steelheader.net- Steelhead, Salmon and trout fishing

As it sits right now I would not purchase an inline for Idaho unless you you plan on using it in short range weapon hunts or just have a bad habbit of buying guns, which is understandable, it happens to the best of us. IDFG can't seem to get their $hit together on the subject and this is nothing new.

Originally they didn't allow anything but traditionals, then in '94 they took out a few sentences from the regulations and didn't really tell anyone, namely the sentence regarding having a pivoting hammer and exposed cap. Last year they went back to pre '94 rules. Now they have decided that because enough people squeeled, they would change again. Bottom line on that is they are going to do what they want to do regardless of public input (this has been proven time and again) and I would tend to beleive that they will end up regressing once again.

That's the first reason I wouldn't buy one, I should say will not be buying another one as I am in the same boat. Mine is not legal anymore either which is why it's in the classifides.

The second reason it it just doesn't make sense with the rules at hand either way. They have taken alot of the advantage of shooting in-lines away by severly limiting our choice in ammunition. Any manufacturer will tell you that their in-lines are made to shoot sabots or at a minumum a cupped connicle. I'm not saying that you will not find an all lead bullet that will not shoot out of a given in-line, but that's not what they were designed for and that's exactly what the traditional's were designed for. I don't want to go through this again when IDFG gets a whim, so I am going to go back to a traditional. There are a few of them that will shoot with any in line up to 100 yards, I don't have good ehough eyesight past that for open sights anyway.

If you are set on an in-line, get one that takes musket caps, they give a little extra flamage, that's never a bad thing. I can't stand the fiber optic sights, they are way to blurry to me, I prefer a peep. Make absolutely sure that you find out which bullet the manufacturer recommends shot with that barrell twist. On that note, almost all the knights I've been around shoot well, but most of them do not come with an exposed nipple anymore. I would buy a TC Black Diamond, they accept musket caps, the cap is exposed and all I've seen shoot well, but that's with cupped conicles.