Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Iowa moves one step closer to allowing rifles for deer!

A few years ago all of southeast Wis. went from shotguns to rifles. The hunter numbers are extremely high in most of that area. When rifles became legal, most thought accidents would go way up. They did not go up, they actually went down. ( Athough they went down where rifles were always legal but they dont need to know that) . Some of the theories are : many shotgun slugs are 365 gr. of lead. The ave. rifle bullet is 1/3 that . There is 1/3 the shrapnel flying around with a rifle bullet. Also , as time goes on, rifle bullets are actually getting smaller. A 100 Gr .243 Win. is plenty , even an 80 TSX is plenty. It also seems reasonable that with a rifle , you may be a bit more cautious than using a shotgun across a 1 mi. wide open area, but a shotgun is still just as dangerous .