Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Hoosiers; a heads up! NO rifles on public land...

From an email I received yesterday from DNR:

Best find a used Savage

Yeah got my email a few days ago too.

Kinda ticks me off, now I mostly hunt private land so as far as rifles I'm good.
But.....I sometimes like to go romp around public land for a doe as I don't like killing too many does from one farm.
Also I like to hunt the state park draws and military/refuge hunts.....now I can't use my 358 wssm.
Stupid oversite apparently, I think we'll be back in the game for 2018.

Well it gives me an excuse to see if I can shoot a deer with my sbe3, kinda looking forward to that.

You should have your DNR guys call the Wisconsin DNR guys because a couple years back we changed from shotgun only areas to rifles state wide when they looked at the statistics and found that there were MORE hunting accidents with shotguns than there were with rifles.

It was an oversight.
That'll be back on for 2018.

Yeah, they're calling it an oversight.
Wasn't.
The law was specific enough.
New director of DNR law enforcement appointed yesterday.
Legislator punching himself gives the new guy a fresh start.

HP rifle was passed last yr without DNR approval. Butt hurt must linger.

HP rifle passed because it had limits. One being it was for a 5 yr study period.........2016-2020.

The DNR interpretation in question is specific to the 2016-2020 hunting season.
Which explicitly frames HP rifle allowance.

PCR was NEVER mentioned in that season, never incorporated into it under new language, or offered for trade or debate during HP rifle law evolution,
PCR was legal on public and private, since 2008?


SECTION 7. IC 14-22-2-8, AS ADDED BY P.L.110-2016,
SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2017]: Sec. 8. (a) This section applies to a hunting season
beginning after June 30, 2016, and ending before January 1, 2020.
(b) A hunter may use a rifle during the firearms season to hunt deer
subject to the following:
(1) The use of a rifle is permitted only on privately owned land.

Anybody with half a brain knows that the new law was talking about HP rifle only, not PCR.

I'm glad I don't hunt public land and have to put up with our terrific legislators.

One would think that Rep. Jim Lucas would be able to introduce legislation to fix this next year. I'll have to call him....

Sounds like a sheithole.

State voted Red. So not a total sheitehole.
I hunt private land mostly, have used PCR (no straight wall case mandate- so that proly makes this area less of a sheitehole too).
Lots of industry (used to be). So decent jobs for a lot of folks. Some decent gun shops back in the day. A few good ones left.
Not everybody here is a Fudd.

The author of the law being misinterpreted by the DNR has publicly stated they were never talking about PCR.
After the DNR posted their crap, the publishers of the Hunting Guide said they may be in error, please see the DNR.
So the legislature just has to declare the DNR view wrong, and the Hunting Guide already printed and out everywhere...........becomes correct.
The rules then same as last yr with regard to PCR.

Finding out who in the DNR pulled this stunt, holding them accountable, and making sure this crap doesn't happen again.............might take longer.

Funny, I was just thinking that about a place were people can't even pump their own gas and pot farms abound.

What's a PCR?

308 AR10 WITH 15" BBL AND SIG BRACE.

Pistol Cartridge Rifle.

A rifle that fires a pistol cartridge.

Hmmmm, I thought it was pistol caliber rifle.

And the intent within that, revolver type cartridges (power/range).

Some states mandate straight wall cases, but IN doesn't.

So we have more choices


Not sure the development of the PCR term..........

maybe came from pistol caliber carbines?

On page 23 of the 2017-2018 INDIANA HUNTING & TRAPPING GUIDE it states that the PCR's are still legal on private AND public land. What changed??

Nevermind....I misread the OP. I swear, this damn state is doing it's best to become a Illanoya clone!!

I have a 357 max for that....but nobody whereall I hunt cares. LOL

The rifle as being more dangerous is nothing but foolish. As a matter of fact, the faster you change to rifle the less people will die. Yes, less people have been accidentally shot from a distance and riccoche bullets when rifles started being used. Shotguns are more dangerous than rifles. In WIsconisn , injuries went down the year most everyone went to rifles. Shotguns are seldom used anymore. If it is good for Wisconsin it's good for Indiana.