yup lucky indeed.
In my state, about 1/3 of the state is shotgun only- unfortunately that part of the state is mostly huge corn and hay fields where a shotgun is pretty much useless[:@]
The area where I hunt is dense forest, where you cannot take full advantage of a rifle.

If I were forced to hunt in an area that didn't allow rifles, I'd buy a TC Encore in a heartbeat. Handguns are legal in the shotgun zones, even chambered in rifle calibers.

There is very little rhyme or reason to our state's hunting rules.