If safety is the concern wouldn’t limiting magazine capacity or action type of the gun accomplish more than caliber restrictions?
Right. Look at how many 30 clips go afield in rifle zones. Rifle, shotgun or handgun, I have always been an advocate of limiting them to one or two shots, but if a gun has multiple round capacity legally it seems nobody can hunt unless the gun’s magazine is full. My logic is simple: make the shot count the first time.
Look at when this point restriction crap started. There was nothing at all wrong with the deer herd we had and not a lick of cwd. Money got into the legislative decision making, the point restrictions came as a trial, then made law. Now look at the whole of zone three with its totally lopsided, un-natural deer numbers, male to female, all because a few people with $$$ influencing the legislature and wanting to shoot deer with heavy antlers every year. Totally selfish.
Should one think that if rifles are allowed in any fashion in the current shotgun zone that money from the nra and other big $$$$ sources won’t come into play if a reduced magazine capacity is in the package suggested by the dnr, or if guns looking like the “black guns” are banned?
My bottom line is that shotguns and muzzleloaders have evolved over the last few years into hyper-accurate deer hunting tools that still have a limited range that makes them safe to use in areas with rural, high population densities. Many of these shotguns and muzzleloaders use bullets and components that border well into rifle capabilities but lack the long range energy….like rifles have….that can make them far more dangerous in this area not only for people whole live there, but livestock and most certainly the hunter afield. The need for a rifle is simply non existent.
This is Minnesota, not Wisconsin or Iowa or Ohio. What they choose to do best suits their own states. Minnesota’s zone three is a unique area to hunt and I have hunted most of it with exception to areas near the Twin Cities. Over the years I have seen several total “F” ups the dnr has master planned with the help of some big $$$ peoples’ suggestions, the most recent being the antler point restrictions when absolutely nothing was wrong with the deer’s natural balance we had. And when cwd came along the dnr had to have someone to point fingers at so the chose deer and elk farms instead of looking at how the balance between doe and buck numbers was totally off the hook and that the prime and usual carriers of the disease was none other than the bucks old enough to travel during the rut that all these idiot big $$$$ jackasses lobbied for.
Zone three does not need rifles. Period. Go buy a rifled shotgun or a muzzleloader and learn how to make the first shot count.
