Some states restrict their primitive hunting seasons to primitive weapons and others don't. Ga is not one of them. If I were going to hunt with this thing I would use it in regular season. One of the reasons for building it smokeless is the cost of the powders. It uses a lot less powder and some of the smokeless powder is less expensive than some of the high grade Bp substitutes. I am going to build this just because I think it is interesting and because I can. By the way these have to be registered just like regular weapons.