@RyanSabalow: Should Indiana deer hunters be allowed to use high-powered rifles.
Should Indiana deer hunters be allowed to use high-powered rifles?
Should Indiana deer hunters be allowed to use high-powered rifles?
It won't change the way I hunt if they do, I hunt the edge of thickets with a shotgun and field edges with a muzzleloader... There is nowhere I hunt that I will be shooting 300 or 400yds anyway, so I won't change a thing..... The only thing I worry about is the road hunters it will sure help them out !!!!
I suspect the problem comparing hunting coyote and deer w a high powered rifles comes down to sheer numbers and sq acres. Don't know what those are but I imagine the volume of hunters w high powered rifles in the woods for 2 weeks in November would dwarf those out after ol Wylie. Would like to see the hard data on that stuff to see if we are really geographically all that different from neighboring states that allow them.
Why must it be explained over and over, that varmint hunters (any worth a damn) shoot varmint bullets (and how deer and varmint bullets differ).
This is exactly why I vote "no".
I voted yes on the public comment section on the proposed rule on the DNR webpage.