I muzzleload and have little issue tagging out, except last season. 20 deer in 21 years of hunting, with the last 10 years hunting ML. Yes, you need to learn more areas, realize that you may end shooting a doe once in a while, and just because you see a legal deer doesn't mean you can shoot it, because you need to close the distance to within 75-100 yards max. In addition to 3 does, I've also killed two 4x4's and a 5x5 with the ML. My bucks have generally been bigger hunting ML.

Most deer I've shot with my ML have been within 20-50 yards.

Modern rifle was too easy, and I checked out anouther hunter with my binos one day that was checking me out with his scope. yeah.

I'll migrate the boys over to ML in the near future.

I want to try bow, and will eventually build my own (have the yew wood thanks to Stam). The transition to bow is much more of a learning curve than ML because of the different type of equipment. Modern rifle skills trasfer easily to ML rifle shooting. Not so much with Rifle to bow.

Also, knocking a 5x5 mule deer off its feet at 25 yards with a ML is pretty cool. He got back up, then dropped.

Early ML is about 10 days. Late ML is almost a month.