Illinois mz has a .44 cal projectile restriction, so unfortunately we cant use the .40's. My first season with a mz, I was using a borrowed Renegade and was using a 185 gr xtp .44 in a green sabot, was accurate out to 140 yards. The night before I went to the farm, someone who is very traditional told me there was a cons officer writing tickets and confiscating firearms, since it really miked .429 I still want to ring his neck. Being a borrowed gun, I didnt risk it and the 260 speer .45 just was no where near as accurate for me. Asked every CO I met for two years and none of them ever heard of such a thing????grrr..

No centerfire rifles except for coyotes.

"Non expanding, military style full metal jacket bullets cannot be used to harvest deer: only soft point or expanding bullets (including copper/copper alloy rounds designed for hunting) are legal ammunition."

For firearm deer season, you can pack in a shotgun, min 20 guage, your muzzleloader and even a handgun if you can carry or drag them all.

Handgun has the weirdest restrictions. "a bottleneck cf cart of .30cal or larger with a case length not exceeding 1.4", or a straightwalled cf cartridge of .30 cal or larger, both of which must be available as a factory load with the published ballistic tables of the mfg showing a capability of at least 500 ft lbs of energy at the muzzle. Note, there is no case length limit for straight walled cartridges." Believe it or not, they allow the .30 carbine round. Ask any WWII vet how they performed on deer in Europe. I did kill alot of rats with one in VN though.