Obviously you have too many deer in a small area. Why aren't rifles allowed? Here, a double barreled gun with rifling full length is a rifle, not a shotgun. Here a rifled single barrel gun is a rifle, not a shotgun. Shotgun only areas, as I noted, are regulated as such to provide safety for surrounding farms, livestock and people. How is it that a rifled gun, capable of sending bullets well over 1,000 yards, is considered a safe gun for settled areas?

The fully rifled arms aceptance by hunters is responisble for cancelling hunting seasons here. Inline muzzleloaders were responsible for cancelling black powder "primitive" seasons here. I know of hunters who bought inlines only because they promised instant accuracy and scope sights with no practise needed & extended the hunting season 3 weeks as they weren't good enough hunters to get a moose during the 2 month season.

I've read US gun magazines which stated some shotgun-only seasons were cancelled due to the scope-sighted rifled shotgun/sabots hitting the market and being used in areas which were 'range/distance' sensitive. The seasons were labeled shotgun-only due to range sensitiveness of the areas. Too highly settled to allow centrefire rifles - yet your area in question seems to allow/promote long range rifled shotguns in shotgun only areas - bit of a contradiction is all.

Even though I'm not a US citizen, I still thought I had a right to an opnion.