we just found out this week you can hunt with a 45-70 cal. gun with smokeless powder,but the gun has to have a exposed hamer. i asked the game warden about the savage rifle with smokeless powder but he said he would have to check on that.

Hunt in what state and during what season?

Mississippi I think. The primitive season.

I amNOT a traditionalist andshoot a Knight Disc rifle and an Ultimate Firearms BP Xpresswhich Ifeelare pushing the envelope in a primitive season, but a 45/70 and Savage smokeless is WAY over the edge in my opinion. That kind of takes the "primitive" out of it. It may be time toback up and regroup when it comes to a "primitive" season.

If the state needs to trim out the heard let them make the rules. The bioligist know more than we do.

i live in north mississippi,we can use a crossbow also but only in primitive season and gun season.I was at the sporting goods store monday and the owner said he had sold all ten of the 45-70 guns and has a list with 16 names on it wanting one also. i would like to get a savage but can't aford one right now.My taxidermist is almost done with my deer head ,i can hardly wait.

i live in north ms.

I dont see the problem with a savage , as long as smokeless is NOT used .

I TOTALLY agree, BUT who is buying them to shoot pyrodex or T7? No one that I have heard of.

It has nothing to do with "buckskinners" or doing it the hard way or anyother "primitive" methods. The reasons are to encourage more harvests. MS (and most anyother southern state) is about 15 years behind the curve with respect too proper harvests and eliminating over-abundant animals. This is why they are encouraging use of such weapons. I quit hunting north MS about 10 years ago because of the poor health of the herd (simply to many animals) and despite our best mgmt techniques we just couldn't produce animals much over 130". (That and the redneck poachers are RAMPANT in this state!)

For most of the 80s and throughout the first half of the 90s the state was to strict in antlerless harvests and now they are panicking because the herd has gotten out of control. The densities per square mile are higher than anyother single state in the U.S. Even having the greatest deer biologist within their own boundaries (Dr. Jacobs at MS State Univ.) wasn't enough for those thickheads. They wanted deer!

Well by God they got em now!!!
RA