SPOT ON. I could see reason for many Western states to be more restricitive, and many Eastern states to open it up. For example, southern Michigan has a herd so out of control in many places that no amount of weapons allowances can draw enough hunters to kill the herd back under control. Now they're trying September antlerless seasons with open allowances. (Maybe they'll wise up and try the Wisconsin earn-a-buck model, as the refusal of most hunters to shoot does is a root of the problem).

Views on primitive weapons also differ regionally. No reason that the regs in say Wyoming should be the same as Louisiana etc.