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The State of Indiana already made a huge mistake, considering on that is going on with this P.C.R vs H.P. rifles, and where each is legal to use. Accordingly, most Counties are too highly populated and developed to allow the use of H.P.rifles for hunting Deer. The minimum 50 acre requirement + 500 yards from nearest home or any commercial development would insure safety for folks that that live in/near such. Those areas would still allow shotgun slugs, M/Ls & Archery equipment. State Forest & National Forests in Indiana would still allow the use of P.C.R.s, however Indiana is simply too populated & flat to allow High Powered rifles like .308 .30-06 firing rifles.
As was debated to death 10 years ago....
If you compare the ballistics of 20 gauge saboted slug gun ammo, the "standard" .50 caliber muzzleloader loads of two 777 pellets and a .250 grain bullet and compare that to .44 mag ballistics out of a rifle, they are all very similar...
Similar velocity, similar energy, similar bullet construction and weight....which equates to similar range and performance. BTW, it's not just Indiana that recognized that. Ohio and now Iowa have adopted pcrs for deer hunting since Indiana did too...
And while you can find a wildcat pcr or two to make your point, a fixed barrel slug gun like the Savage 220 is considered a 200 yard gun by many and Remington advertises their newest muzzleloader as their 300 yard muzzleloader.
So in reality, to meet your criteria there would be a very small percentage of private properties that ANY shotgun, m/l, pcr or hpr could be used during the deer season.
