.460 "chamber" legal

[tobster]

I know they have proposed changing the length to 1.80 which would make this question a mute point, but have never really gotten a clear answer. Can you hunt with a gun chambered in .460 if you are shooting a .454 or is the rifle/barrel illegal because you CAN chamber a .460?

[Hank in Indiana]

The statute clearly states any rifle capable of shooting a legal cartridge. I has to be this way because all of the rifles are capable of shooting an illegal cartridge. Examples are 38Sp in 357, 44 russian in 44 mag, 45 schofield in 45 long colt, buckshot in shotguns and muzzleloaders saboted down to 30 cal.

[Tom Threetoes]

For what it's worth , I asked a CO on another Indiana forum the same question, he said " the chamber markings made no difference as long as the cartridge case met the required length".

[6x6 elk]

I have also been told that the Cartrdge in the gun is what matters, not the designation on the Barrel. The 460 may be legal for 2012 once they finally approve the new regulations? But it sounds like there is too much to change for it to go through in 2011.

[Hank in Indiana]

When the proposal is signed into law it will have a date that it is affective. I don't know of any rule that states that they have to skip a year. As far as I know they can make laws that are affective immediately. In. seems to make a lot of laws that go into affect on Sept 1. I assume law makers do this so they can take the rest of the year off. Until it becomes law its hard to tell what the affective date will be. I'm hoping Sept 1 of this year.