I have heard both sides of the arguement, but the big thing is how many rules has the dec made to give hunters an advantage in the past few years [not many]. Any law or ruling that is to a hunters good is one step farther for the animal rights idiots to take our rights away!!!!!
To me that's the big picture..
I live in the rifle area and hunt in the shotgun area the most , But I will try the rifle area a little.
I don't think rifles will be as dangerous as people think, because most hunters will be useing a more acurate weapon and making cleaner kills. Some shotgun hunters use old guns they borrowed , that have bird barrels and they shoot a refridgerator box at 50 yrds the day before,and then say 'I'm Good to Go GUY'S . then the first shot at a deer is a miss so because the the gun holds 5 , 4 more slugs are launched at random... { that is the scarey part to me}.
Compare : A rifle bullet is like a motorcycle doing150 mph [high speed ,breaks apart easly]
a shot gun slug is like a semi truck doing 65 mph [heavy, maintains its mass and bounces around]
I'd much rather have the first one hit my house [ per say].
The chance shots at a deer on the horizon will be the ones that cause the most problems.
These are just my opinions and I can think'em better than I can type'em.
Good luck to everyone anywhere you might hunt!!
