The sights amd projectiles should be of a type used in the past not just kinda sorta like them in a wide descripytive tone, if you follow this line of though then the ** line guns are traditional because that concept was around in the 18th century if you want to go by a very low standard and squeeze non traditional equipment in because of a very slim and vague resemblance to something from the past that is fine, but some prefer to use facts and not fancy to set the bar
and such a low standard taken as fact does not do any favors to newcommers trying to learn about traditional gear, a maxi ball is not a traditional projectile neither is a bal-let they have an advantage over the RB and and period type bullets same with modern peeps that is the point, if you cannot see the forest for the trees that is fine use whatever you choose and call it whatever you want but the facts will remain unchanged. for a traditional hunt the sights need to be of a style common to the period, and so should the projectiles not ones that are a result of 200 yeasr of R&D. Such regs. are not asking much they are just asking for a season that allows gear like what was used in the 1840's or earlier but many simply cannot or will not give up the modern niceties and advantages persieved or real that modern sights and bullets provide and to mask this try to make them traditional by comparison useing generalites of descriptive qualities rather than historic facts and performance data, I think it is a waste of time to contiune this as there is little hope of convincing anyone who says they really think a Maxi ball or a hight tech micro click peep is a traditional piece of gear, such an individual is either very uninformed or dishonest, Take the venerablr TC Hawkin, put a front blade, fixed primitive rear and feed it PRB and you have a traditional outfit, take an original Harpers Ferry put on a modern sight and shove down a modern design conical fit the barrel with a fast twist so you can concievably double the range of the original setup and you don't, it is as simple as night and day, you can pussy foot around it till the cows come home and it is what it is, nothing wrong with such a set up but let's call a spade a spade and not toss around the traditional term so loosly that it gets lost in the shuffle, I know this upsets those who don't like traditional gear but love to say the word, that is unfortunate but none of us are always traditional it is just harder for some to admit it probably to themselves I guess, I have neber reall figured out why some folks have to stretch and tug and twist reality just to say they are traditional or PC I have and use both types of Ml gear and have no problem telling the difference twixt the two and use either without hanging my head or sticking my nose in the air, but I do try very hard not to represnt one as the other, someone who really cares about the truth may be reading and they deserve honesty not wishfull thinking, I hope the states that have adapted stricter regs leaning toward the ttraditional side do well and those hunters in those states are happy with the changes but I think we are a long ways from having many truly tradtional seasons because we have been fed Maxis, R.E.A.L's fancy peeps and many other modern niceties for many years and bad habits are hard to break.The bar is set very low it is just a matter of whether it is to low for you or not as to supporting the content of the regs, and I suppose there may be those who are unable to take a deer with primitive sights and a PRB or sufficient size but I would question whether they should be in the woods or not as they obviously do not have a very good understanding of the basics of ML hunting.