Big Bore Air Rifles Now Legal For Deer Hunting Season In Arkansas

By Ammoland

LITTLE ROCK –-(Ammoland.com)- Deer hunters will be able to pursue their game with one more option this season, thanks to a recent regulation change by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. During the annual hunting regulations review process, commissioners voted to legalize large-caliber air rifles that meet certain standards for deer hunting during modern gun season.

The change comes at the request of airgun enthusiasts and after being thoroughly reviewed by AGFC biologists with the help of subject-matter experts. Ralph Meeker and Jeremy Brown, the AGFC’s Deer Program Coordinators, spent months researching airgun designs and ballistic data and personally met with several big bore airgun and ammunition manufacturers and airgun enthusiasts. Their research also involved contacting many other state agencies that allowed airguns for hunting to determine any issues they may have had in legalizing the weapons for deer season.

“Our primary concern was to establish a minimum set of standards that would be sufficient enough to provide an ethical harvest …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand