Does this make sense?

[shilo]

In Ohio we're allowed to use a handgun to deer hunt as long as it's 357 caliber or bigger and a straight wall case with minimum barrel length of 5".  So a 375Win, 444 Marlin, 45/70, 44 Mag, ect is OK out of a handgun. But I can't use any of those out of a rifle. No rifles allowed. If you look at the sabot slug loads and sabot muzzleloader loads, they're shooting about the same velocity as most levergun loads. I keep hoping they'll allow us to use leverguns someday.

[Jerry Lester]

You're right. Those kind of laws are completely rediculous.

[Shorty]

Where I am, in Va, I can shoot a 500 gr. Minie bullet at 800 ft/sec. but I can't hunt with a shotgun slug of any gauge. :roll:
In a rifle allowed county, one can have as many rounds in the magazine as the rifle will hold, but shotguns can have only three. :roll:
During deer season I can hunt squirrels with a .22 RF, turkeys with a .22 CF but not deer with either. :roll:
Some high density populated counties allow rifle hunting but some low-populated counties are shotgun only.
There is a bill in the legislature that would allow the fish and game department to over-rule counties on these politically-motivated rules, but it is not too hopefull.

[Oldtimer]

A lot of game regulations were written at a time when deer were quite rare, so they are outdated.  My wife's grandfather told me that it was news for miles around when a deer track was seen, and people would drive over just to look at it.  Now, if I don't see five deer in two miles, I worry that my eyesight is failing.  Keeping after a game department to change the regulations does work, as we have seen in Virginia, which just recently allowed crossbows for deer hunting.  The thing is, other people are also doing the same thing, so it helps to organize a group to go to meetings and contact regulators.
Regulations can get so complicated that they become almost impossible to follow.  A couple of years ago, we had a game warden write himself a ticket for shooting a quail out of season, as the regulation was different where he was hunting than where he patrolled. :-D