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Now we can use any 35 to 50 caliber rifle on deer. Wonder how many 50 bmg will be bouncing around

No requirement for straight wall cartridges?? Bring on the 82A1 Barrett!

Yep no 243 but you can use a 458

We do the same in Louisiana wife and I both use CVA Scout .45-70 during the 2 week primitive sesaon.

I suppose you could use a 50 for hunting deer, but you sure as hell better ensure your shot is backstopped appropriately. Probably mostly morons and the occasional marksman using them, try to stay safe.

Here in BC I'm pretty sure we can still use 22 if we choose to. A friend of my dad's used nothing but to hunt everything from grouse to moose with one up in the Caribou country back in the 1950s, but he was an uncanny shot.

My point