It's been legal in Minnesota for a while. I have used it on a few deer, including a couple large size. I have only used TSX 53 grain bullets on deer with it. I have never recovered one from a deer, two holes every time. The wound channel was a little better than a 30-30 with cup and core ammo in my opinion. It worked well, a very large doe I shot with it was just above the heart and she was down and dead in a little over 100 feet. Another, didn't make it quite that far with the heart loose in the chest. Velocity on what I loaded was running just over 3000 FPS
I wouldn't use it past 250 yards. 100 yards or so and in, it's fully equal to anything as far as putting white tail deer down, but it does suffer a little in terms of range .
