One link leads me to the Wildlife Refuge seasons the other is the TWRA page. As far as Muzzle loading calibers go, you can use .36 and greater for all game except turkey and waterfowl. Less than .36 for all small game except Turkey and Waterfowl.
Tennessee does NOT have a primitive weapons season (traditional sidelock rifles and pistols, long bows and recurve bows all with primitive sights). Tennessee does have a "muzzleloader" season which allows us to use all sorts of cool stuff to hunt with! Modern Muzzleloaders, scopes, crossbows, recurves and those new fangeled jobs with two miles of cable strung between a bunch of pulleys that shoot arrows at mach 2.
We have never had an Elk season, at least as we know it. Every year TWRA draws a handful of hunters to hunt elk. These hunters get pampered by TWRA and gets all kinds of cool gifts from hundreds of sponsors and their own personal hunting guide, I even read where at one time you were given the rifle to keep to hunt the elk with. Not my kind of hunting but to each his own I suppose.
Time for my second cup of coffee.
DaveS