JC, I don't know. This is one of the stupidest regulations I have ever heard of.

How in the world did this regulation ever pass? Not to mention what idiot thought this one up?

"Kind or type manufactured before 1900."
But todays replica rifles are made of modern steel and are capeable of handling much stronger loadings then were available pre-1900. So it's ok to use a completely modern rifle with powerful modern cartridges so long as it still looks like the original??????? The vast majority of deer killed are killed with a single shot so why not allow every rifle designed before 1900? The single shot has very limited disadvantages and some people find no disadvantage to them at all and actually prefer them over a repeating rifle.

Hell why have a "primitive" weapons season at all any more now that we are allowing centerfire rifles?


It has been proven many times over that the 45-70 out of rifles such as the Sharps and replicas are capeable of taking buffalo at ranges beyond 1000 yards and now they are sudedenly "primitive weapons" ??????? Hell, they even used scopes on them.