Hi Jim,
A Happy New Year to you. Hope you are in a snowfree part of the country. It would not be much fun confined to the "bookmobile" in a snowstorm!
Yes it would appear that muzzleloaders indeed were still in wide use until very recent times in many countries, due to difficulty of acquiring fixed ammunition. There was a very recent TV program hosted by Britain's Michael Palin, which featured a monkey hunter in either Chad or Mali, who still used a flint muzzleloader to ply his trade!
Regards Stu
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