I am not a big fan of them opening up the handgun season to muzzle loaders and shotguns too. Mostly because a lot of people that were handgun hunters are now competeing for a limited number of permits with people who already had a shotgun and a muzzleloader season. Sure, many of the handgun hunters were just using the handguns because they had too but still, I just don't like it.

As far as high power rifles in Illinois. Out here in the prairie I think I would have to get a concrete bunker to hide in if they allowed high power rifles. Although it has always struck me as odd that you can shoot a Coyote with just about anything and they are running around the same areas that the deer are. My guess is that it is a numbers thing as far as hunters out an about increasing danger of accidental shootings. Now, maybe rifles like .45-70's that don't fly quite like the more modern .270's and their like but I don't know.