I've had bad luck from the more pastoral of folks too.
There is zero reason why Indiana could not allow modern centerfire rifles for hunting whitetail like its southern neighbor.
ZERO.
But hey, we can't make this deer hunting thing too easy or inclusive for new participants...wouldn't want just anybody having the chance to shoot deer that rightfully belong to the "I'm more dedicated than you" bowhunting blowhards.
Where within the confines of Indiana do you propose hunting with these hi-power/riffle cartridges? Because I'd hate to be the unsuspecting guy in a tree stand or blind just over the hill side from that corn field you just shot across because you think this is to your advantage.
This is as much for the safety of the rest of us hunting as it is so you don't have to follow the current rules and find a firearm that fits within the current list of approved ammo.
Something like this got approved and I'd promise I'd never step foot in the woods or allow my sons to either... Especially in Southern Indiana where you have far too many hunters on Public/Gov Properties where 1/2 or more of them have no business with BB Guns!!!
Isn't about blow hard bow hunters or anyone else... It is about firearms and ammo that fit the conditions and in most cases over crowded land where hunting is allowed!!!
Where within the confines of Indiana do you propose hunting with these hi-power/riffle cartridges? Because I'd hate to be the unsuspecting guy in a tree stand or blind just over the hill side from that corn field you just shot across because you think this is to your advantage.
This is as much for the safety of the rest of us hunting as it is so you don't have to follow the current rules and find a firearm that fits within the current list of approved ammo.
Something like this got approved and I'd promise I'd never step foot in the woods or allow my sons to either... Especially in Southern Indiana where you have far too many hunters on Public/Gov Properties where 1/2 or more of them have no business with BB Guns!!!
Isn't about blow hard bow hunters or anyone else... It is about firearms and ammo that fit the conditions and in most cases over crowded land where hunting is allowed!!!
Where within the confines of Indiana do you propose hunting with these hi-power/riffle cartridges? Because I'd hate to be the unsuspecting guy in a tree stand or blind just over the hill side from that corn field you just shot across because you think this is to your advantage.
I do understand your concern, but you still haven't addressed the issue of what makes deer hunting with a rifle inherently less safe than hunting coyote (or any other game for which it's legal) with a rifle. For that matter, a deer slug, or .50 caliber projectile from a muzzle loader will travel plenty far enough to pose the dangers you seem to be most concerned about, so I just am not seeing what the difference would be.Kentucky isn't Indiana... Want all the other idio BS that KY law applies to by all means move there to hunt...
I'm a very avid hunter and 2A guy... Not saying rivers of blood just 100% saying that I don't want the added risk with the sear number of Idiots they allow in the woods in Indiana during Deer Season...
My extended family owns 500+ acres bordered by Hoosier National Forest... Find a way that Idiots will actually recognize and honor Private Property, No Hunting, and No Trespassing Signs and stay on Public Land where I know Myself and My Sons as well as our Family can hunt the land the family pays taxes on without risk of having some moron walking around shooting at damn near every sound in the woods and I'd be more than willing to consider Rifles.
On at least 2 different occasions in the past 20-25 years I've been hunting we've ran into incidents that weren't due to anyone in our overall family on land that the person causing it should have never been on... 3 Years ago my uncle's truck had side window taken out with a .357 bullet on opening day, 5-6 years prior to that my grandparents Lab was shot because it was running in the field not 100yrds below their house...
So Don't talk to me about some river of blood or waiting more powerful calibers allowed until someone can logically talk about sanity checks and keeping the complete idiots that should have BB Guns out of the woods.
Would make my hunt easier... Not much sport to it though... Simply open loft doors to couple different barns, sit there with Heat and maybe a Nice Cold Beer just after sunrise or before dusk and wait on Bambi to step out of the other side of a corn or soybean field then lower the boom...
But what can I do to follow that up?? Mounted Hunt from ATV?? Spotlight across fields just after dark on opening Day of Gun Season??
I do understand your concern, but you still haven't addressed the issue of what makes deer hunting with a rifle inherently less safe than hunting coyote (or any other game for which it's legal) with a rifle.
Kentucky isn't Indiana... Want all the other idio BS that KY law applies to by all means move there to hunt...
Being new to the state I now understand why there is no market for some of the fine hunting rifles I have brought with me. But I also understand the reason. Too much of a danger in a flat state with no hills also it seems every tree in the state has been removed for farming or development.
3 incidents in 25 years? Really? All this fuss over 3 incidents in 2 and a half decades? Jeez, develope some perspective. I guess you will next be advocated limiting what folks shoot for their leisure because there have been more that three errant rounds hit property per year just from recreational shooting. What a tyrannical attitude.