[dredmon67]

Can you deer hunt with a muzzle loader?

[ma0641]

You asked 2 questions. See Michigan Code Section 750:224 f. -possibly and YES. Look up the law and see if you qualify. In some places felons can only use a bow and arrow, no firearms.

[AK lawyer]

You asked 2 questions. See Michigan Code Section 750:224 f. -possibly and YES. Look up the law and see if you qualify. In some places felons can only use a bow and arrow, no firearms.

You mean this?

"Sec. 224f.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person convicted of a felony shall not possess, use, transport, sell, purchase, carry, ship, receive, or distribute a firearm in this state until the expiration of 3 years after all of the following circumstances exist:
...

(2) A person convicted of a specified felony shall not possess, use, transport, sell, purchase, carry, ship, receive, or distribute a firearm in this state until all of the following circumstances exist:
...

(b) The person's right to possess, use, transport, sell, purchase, carry, ship, receive, or distribute a firearm has been restored pursuant to section 4 of Act No. 372 of the Public Acts of 1927, being section 28.424 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

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(4) This section does not apply to a conviction that has been expunged or set aside, or for which the person has been pardoned, unless the expunction, order, or pardon expressly provides that the person shall not possess a firearm.

(5) As used in this section, felony means a violation of a law of this state, or of another state, or of the United States that is punishable by imprisonment for 4 years or more, or an attempt to violate such a law.

(6) As used in subsection (2), specified felony means a felony in which 1 or more of the following circumstances exist:

(i) An element of that felony is the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or that by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.

(ii) An element of that felony is the unlawful manufacture, possession, importation, exportation, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled substance.
..."

Doesn't much matter, really, with respect to firearms. Federal law says a convicted felon cannot possess one unless the conviction has been expunged.

The real question here is how OP is planning to "hunt". Use of a firearm is pretty-much out of the picture.

Edit: OP seems to have added "with a muzzle-loader" after I wrote this. A muzzle-loader is not a "firearm" under Federal law, so it would just be a matter of state law, as quoted above.

And the state law definition of firearm is more inclusive, as to include a muzzle-loader:

"750.222 Definitions.
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(d) "Firearm" means a weapon from which a dangerous projectile may be propelled by an explosive, or by gas or air. Firearm does not include a smooth bore rifle or handgun designed and manufactured exclusively for propelling by a spring, or by gas or air, BBs not exceeding .177 caliber."

Bottom line: OP will have to get the conviction expunged or set aside.