WV hunter, PA contracted to have a study done when a bunch of townships were lobbying the PA Game Commission to expand the shotgun only areas. Shotgun areas are now a misnomer because muzzle-loaders have been added as legal several years ago as legal sporting arms in those areas. The results of the study, paid for by the PA legislature were surprising to many. They were that rifled slugs are no more safe than rifle bullets because slugs have more of a tenancy ricochet off the ground and objects than bullets fired from rifles. The shotgun areas were not expanded! Of course, those in already in existence were not removed because they would have been riot at the next commission by those who live in the shotgun areas. I have no doubt that the results were correct because our officers had training on how to bounce a rifled slug off the ground to hit an assailant under certain circumstances. The more the angle the higher the slug will bounce. We were easily hitting silhouette inside the scoring rings by bouncing the rifled slugs off the ground in front of the targets. Do not try this at home, it is for information only in case the are you hunt wants shotgun only areas.
Last edited by Oldtimr; 05-15-2016 at 10:12 AM.