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The thing is i cannot legally use a m1 garand in the shotgun zone. i cant use my 44 mag lever gun. But i can use an encore with a 15 inch barrel in 44 mag. only 2 inches of barrel difference but only one is legal
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What is legal or not and what is logical have no correlation. Shotguns only in the heavier populated Southern Michigan zone is supposedly for safety reasons (stray bullet theory). However, the powers that be (Michigan), seem to be oblivious to the fact that one may hunt varmints with rifles (no restriction on caliber or bullet type), but not deer in zone three. Also, statistics of Michigan deer hunting season deaths show that almost all the shootings have been of the, "I thought it was a deer...", (well within the shorter shotgun lethal range) category, hardly ever, the errant, "stray bullet" from a quarter-mile away.