Need Help! Handgun Hunting?

[Badgersmilk]

Here you go!

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=130822119#PIC

Auctions over, but it went for only $350!  My guess is you'll have the only one on your street. 

[Ping]

screwed up state like Indiana that would let me hunt deer with a .270 handgun, but not a .44 mag carbine (sorry Ping but its true). 

FQ, they approved the .44 mag carbine. Any rifle in pistol caliber can be used in the State of Indiana. Unfortunately, we can only hunt deer with shotguns but can pop a coyote with a AR-15, 7mm bolt rifle, 30-06, etc.  Sad but true.

[ericire12]

FQ, they approved the .44 mag carbine. Any rifle in pistol caliber can be used in the State of Indiana. Unfortunately, we can only hunt deer with shotguns but can pop a coyote with a AR-15, 7mm bolt rifle, 30-06, etc.  Sad but true.

Most of that is not based on anti gun ideology, however. Its just DNR's way of controlling the population of a given species, and it is highly effective. Its based on the idea that the more primitive the weapon the hunter must use the lower the percentage of a kill.... thus it increases the population to require shotgun/primitive weapons. The most effective/controllable tools DNR has at their disposal are:

*limits on number of licenses issued
*limits on types of weapons that can be used
*length of season

Some states even go as far as having multiple seasons within the season.  It will start with primitive weapons..... go to rifle season for only about a couple weeks..... go to shotgun..... and go back to primitive weapons at the end of the season.

Other states will go through several years of shotgun only to let the populations recover, and then open things back up to rifle.

Staying on top of what is and is not legal can become very confusing depending on where you live and how much DNR has to micromanage animal populations.     

[Timothy]

Some states even go as far as having multiple seasons within the season.  It will start with primitive weapons..... go to rifle season for only about a couple weeks..... go to shotgun..... and go back to primitive weapons at the end of the season.

Staying on top of what is and is not legal can become very confusing depending on where you live and how much DNR has to micromanage animal populations.     

This is what we go through in MA.  Additionally, there is NO hunting of any kind on Sundays, you can't have anything but a small piece of the animal visible until it's tagged and then it needs to be kept from the sight of the neighbors...rediculous.

These libs would rather run them down with their cars, it seems SO much more humane!

[tombogan03884]

 NH has separate seasons on deer for Bow, Muzzle loader and Firearm. rifle/shotgun depends on population density. Sunday hunting is OK here but not in Me.

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[Big Frank]

The T/C Encore is chambered in higher powered rifle calibers including .308 and .30-06. The Contender is only available in a few, weaker rifle calibers (unless you order from the custom shop).