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- Oct 3, 2012
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hubel458 said:there are too many cars, people, houses, lake resorts, villages, towns, for it not to be shotgun only
like below the line.
just cause ya got a rifle doesn't mean bullet choice doesn't matter same goes for shot placement. a shot gun slug can go pretty damn far as well, as long as people arn't being stupid it don't matter much, hell i light off rifles all the time and i live in flat land central just watch what your doing.The entire state of Kentucky, to include densely populated Jefferson Co (Louisville) and Fayette Co (Lexington) allows modern centerfire rifles for hunting deer. The state goes from 'mountains' in the east to flat agricultural fields in the west...and for some odd reason "stray bullets" really haven't been an issue the last 18 (this will make 19) years I've hunted there.
As for the 243..."first shots in the chest" doesn't say much. If they were hit in the shoulder with a varmint-type bullet, that would fully explain why it didn't "anchor them". Any load with a soft point bullet like those available from Wal-Mart into the shoulder would break it and drop the deer, and the same bullet into the heart/lung area would provide a clean quick kill...to say nothing of a CNS shot (head/neck/spine).
" Any load with a soft point bullet like those available from Wal-Mart into the shoulder would break it and drop the deer, and the same bullet into the heart/lung area would provide a clean quick kill..."
^ This. Shot a buck a few years ago, through the lungs, with a 6mm Remington, Barnes PSP at about 100 yds with a, (gasp) Encore pistol... DRT
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.
i agree, theres no reason that i can't the mosins or the mauser out during deer season. wouldn't the larger rounds increase damage to internals? wouldn't this allow a cleaner quicker kill? i don't see any reason for this law ether. im sure coyotes are killed like flies with 308s and 556s all season long, and we ain't had much problems yet?Ok, again, no, it has nothing to do with topography.
1. Indiana is not flat.
2. Indiana is far more bumpy than most states that allow centerfire rifles.
3. The Pennsylvania study put an end to the nonsense that "shotgun are safer". That is gun shop teeth talk and complete nonsense.
4. The prohibition on centerfire rifles was a handicap to build the deer herd. The trophy hunters are fighting centerfire rifles tooth and nail.
The only other round I'd like to see added would be a 30/30
what Einstein launches .270's at arboreal rats
Kirk Freeman said:I admit that there is a hornets' nest of political problems in allowing centerfire rifles.
Road, you apparently do not understand the magic pixie dust bullet theory of IDNR.
When a .270 is launch at a squirrel in a tree, it turns into pixie dust when it missed or passes through the squirrel.
Whereas when a .30-30 is launched down from a deer stand and misses a deer it kills all women and minorities within a 369.4 mile radius.