Much of Maryland is shotgun, legal handgun or muzzle loader only for deer. My fraternal grandfather was among the last of the subsistance hunters in Maryland. He had 14 kids and when he picked up a gun, there was no sport in mind. Everything went in the pot, especially during the Great Depression, when even the smallest kid trapped animals to sell the pelts and help out. Pop-pop, to my knowledge, never used a rifle. He had an old pre-War Model 11 Remington in 20ga that one of the older boys gave him when his double barrel 12ga broke. He killed everything to include white tail deer with that humped back semi-suto, which he loved. Of course, here in Maryland there is a lot of thicket hunting, especially on the western shore. Someone gave him half a box of duck loads that were 2 3/4" Magnums! Pop-pop didn't know anything about Magnums, but he liked those that were given to him because he told me that they, "hit hard on squirrels and shucked out the hulls real fast!"