Originally Posted by
TN Lone Wolf
Everyone I've asked said it used to be shotgun only. Wonder if it was by county? We're over in northwest TN.
Could have been. I hunted all over TN when I was younger. But I used a 30-30 or a .30-06 way back then. My old man used to use a Smooth bore with slugs during the SG season but me and that VERY light field gun he had did NOT get along well with slugs in it. I was a little fella till around 14 or so. That dang thing put me on my rear! My 16th B-Day was the one and ONLY rifle my old man ever bought for me that I didn't have to pay him back for. A brand spanking new Mod 70 Win .30-06. Still have it! Still will shoot the eyes out of a gnat with my pet loads. Killed a LOT of deer with that and my old .30-30 lever gun in TN so if they were illegal, I was most certainly a law breaker
