No high-powered rifles for hunting?

[youngda9]

The laws need to be changed. The fact-less fear mongering from our own sickens me. It's like a supposedly pro-gun person advocating for restrictions that have been proven to do no good many times over.

 

[damdayshifter]

I say open it up run what you brung! No max....no min.

 

[Hookeye]

Hell why even have separate seasons?

Why not just let everybody out with whatever they want from Oct 1 to Jan 5 or whatever the end date is.

 

[Cerberus]

Hell why even have separate seasons?

Why not just let everybody out with whatever they want from Oct 1 to Jan 5 or whatever the end date is.

Apple and oranges. I don't think anyone is even advancing this position. However, convaluted law is not good law.

 

[spaniel]

More of Colorado is flat as an ironing board. My question: how many people are shot each hunting season in the Eastern Colorado counties with centerfire rifles?

I've hunted out west extensively. I've never encountered the hunter density that is average in Indiana. I could see or knew of the presence of at least 18 hunters within a mile of me last season. Out west it's pretty unusual to have anyone else in sight.

The current rules make it pretty clear that it's hunter density they are worried about during firearm deer season, not resident density. This is why you can use any rifle during coyote season but not deer season -- hunter density is something like 1% that of opening day of deer season.

I'd guess the reason for bottleneck cartridges in pistols are along the same lines....there won't be many of them out there so the risk is lower. But that part of the law I do think is silly.

 

[Fishing-Nut]

there is a survey on the DNR website about possible changes