Muley - you're right. But the wildlife depts have to consider the general public. You, me and probably every other guy on this forum would wait for a nice clean shot before pulling the trigger. But the average 'Joe Blow' will see get all excited seeing a big bull and might just figure "if I can just put a bullet in him and make him bleed I can track him and finish him." Its a sad situation. But there are a lot of knucleheads out there that think that way. What they could do is put a bullet weight restriction rather than a caliber restriction.