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Oh there’s a lot of weapons that need change, but the muzzleloaders are 50.cal which are bigger and more powerful calibers than a 7mm
Irl there’s no way in hell you’d be using a .50 Cal Muzzleloader on a Bison. Neither of the muzzleloaders should be a Class 9 weapon. The absolute minimum for a Bison should be at least a .54 Cal Muzzleloader, more likely something like a .595 Caliber.
People take them down well with 308, and people did hunt bison with muzzleloaders back in the day
Back in the day the common muzzleloader calibers for Bison were .54, .58, .68, .69 because they needed the extra mass. .50 could have worked in a pinch but would not have been ideal due to bullet weight and powder load for those rifles.
Little history lesson thats why a lot of Bison/Buffalo hunters went to large breach loading single shot rifles like Sharps or Remington which provided better accuracy, ruggedness, and reliability over their muzzleloading counterparts and because they could run 45-70, 50-90, and 45-120 which all were superior in overall performance compared to the muzzleloaders.
Ohh ok well thank you for informing me, i though those would be mostly used for anything higher than bison but good to know. 45-70 in game though is worse than a 300 magnum so idk
the 45-70 in game is a joke, you can handload it to power akin to a .375 H&H irl
Yeah the biggest problem cotw has right now is the unrealistic ammo, they need to prioritize it greatly
In the hunter classic 45-70 will drop on the spot every big animals. I'm happy again do moose, grizzly, bison and elk hunt. Stupid of cotw balance. 
What's your thoughts about the 300 Magnum
Even 243 easy drops the mule. The Classic is about the very hard hunt not about ammo balance.