Tam has some history on Indiana's Deer regulations.
In short: The DNR was working to ween back a nearly extinct species (deer) about a hundred years ago and, surprisingly, succeed. However despite having a glut of deer there mentality of "we need to make the culling harder" is only now slowly turning.
For even stranger lookup how the Indiana DNR determines what is a "rifle" cartridge versus what is a "handgun" cartridge.
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That's because the handgun cartridge thing is pretty new. Like all laws, this stuff builds by sedimentation.
(And it only has to be a handgun cartridge if you're shooting it in a rifle; you can shoot rifle cartridges as long as you shoot them from handguns. Clear as mud? XD )
Ah. I did find it amusing that some handgun cartridges counted and some did not. (Like 45acp versus 45 colt. Though that was a couple years ago when I looked and my memory might be off).
Wait.... so one could hunt deer in Indiana using an AR with 223, but only if it's a pistol AR?
I don't know the minimum bullet diameter for handguns. For rifles, it's .357".
http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/7389.htm
Ah! Forgot about the min diameter.
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