Who in their right mind would consider a Sharps rifle a primative weapon? Especially when it uses a metallic cartridge with smokeless powder.

And then they say that a handi rifle is a primitave weapon but not a TC. What the heck is the difference?????? A handi rifle fires the same cartridges as the TC and uses the same break open design.

And to use 1900 as the "primitave" cut off date. Yeah. like 1900 was anywhere close to being a primative time. Heck, internal combustion engines and automobiles were invented and experimented with as early as the 1600's.

And going by the 1900 cut off date then the 30-30, 30-40 Kraig, 6.5X55, 6.5X50 Jap, 7X57, and a bunch of oterhs should also be legal for "primitive" weapons season. And so should the mauser rifles such as the 98, 96, etc, Winchester 94's, Marlins levers, Savage 99, and a host of other "primitive" but modern rifles

What was their cryteria for being a primative weapon?