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mrawesome22 · June 4, 2007, 11:36 PM

The plug law started about 4 years ago. That's another law that makes no sense to me. I can use a revolver holding 6 cartridges, but if I go with a shotgun, it can only hold 3

But I don't really care about the shotgun law cause all I hunt deer with is my smokepole and SRH.

It just makes no sense to me why a revolver shooting a 44Mag is OK, but using a rifle shooting a 44Mag is not. Sure the rifle will raise the FPS by a couple hundred FPS. But thats irrelevant when comparing the ballistics side by side.

Now take this 240gr .429" diameter slug, wrap a sabot around it, and cram it down my smokepole. 2400fps

Compared to 1600 out of the hangun and 1800 out of the rifle.

But I'm working on changing these laws.

What pisses me off the most is these laws were probably written by people who have never hunted in there life.

Don't even get my started on bottleneck rifle cartrides LOL.

June 4, 2007, 11:36 PM	#7
mrawesome22 Senior Member Join Date: November 9, 2005 Location: Ohio, Appalachia's foothills. Posts: 3,779	The plug law started about 4 years ago. That's another law that makes no sense to me. I can use a revolver holding 6 cartridges, but if I go with a shotgun, it can only hold 3 But I don't really care about the shotgun law cause all I hunt deer with is my smokepole and SRH. It just makes no sense to me why a revolver shooting a 44Mag is OK, but using a rifle shooting a 44Mag is not. Sure the rifle will raise the FPS by a couple hundred FPS. But thats irrelevant when comparing the ballistics side by side. Now take this 240gr .429" diameter slug, wrap a sabot around it, and cram it down my smokepole. 2400fps Compared to 1600 out of the hangun and 1800 out of the rifle. But I'm working on changing these laws. What pisses me off the most is these laws were probably written by people who have never hunted in there life. Don't even get my started on bottleneck rifle cartrides LOL.