PA rifle regs

What do you guys think of the no semi-auto rifles in Pa. I think there are good and bad things as with anything. Got to talking to someone out of state who used them where he was from( cant really remember where he was from wasnt really paying attention) he said he hates hunting without them.
 

Id say go for it...just use one bullet
 
1 Shot 1 Kill

Would love to give my AR15 a try but would not support the legalization of semi-autos for big game in Pa.  Too many spray and prayers in this state that unload thier clips in the gamemasters.  Would hate to see all the gut shot and three legged deer with 20 round clips.
 
Small game and predators they should be legal, never understood why they are not.

Would be nice for ground hogs , grouse & ducks shotgun, but not tasty critters such as deer one shot no waste of meat. Too many lead slingers.

i can see it now, a squirrel hunter witha semi-auto banana clip 0pening up on a tree rat running across the tree tops, lead flying all around, tree after tree, archery hunters falling from sky.

One shot, one kill.  

You're forgetting something.  In PA, we don't hunt for meat anymore.  It's all good as long as those trophy antlers don't get hit. 

**** it!  That reminds me.  I shot a button buck.  No antler stew for my children this winter.  I'm a baaaaad Daddy.

Plug them for three like they do shotguns and I see no problem. Make more money for the clip manufactures.  Fine them if they possess a larger clip or a unplugged rifle.

Semi autos in rifle season is a baaaaaddddddd idea. We already have to many people with the lead slinging mentality. Allowing semi's would only make that worse. I posted another thread talking about how many times I hear people unloading their guns on/at a running deer. I dont think we should add to that problem.
 

Wellllllll--- you can fire a pump nearly as fast as a semi----and most shotguns are semi or pump and accurate beyond what the average whitetail is shot in Pa. I guess the antis could use that same argument to outlaw all pump rifles and shotguns and semi shotguns. How about lever action rifles? Where do you draw the line? I say plug them for three and let them use them. Don't want to argue but your just as hurt with a ounce lead ball from a shotgun as a 223 bullet.

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Wellllllll--- you can fire a pump nearly as fast as a semi----and most shotguns are semi or pump and accurate beyond what the average whitetail is shot in Pa. I guess the antis could use that same argument to outlaw all pump rifles and shotguns and semi shotguns. How about lever action rifles? Where do you draw the line? I say plug them for three and let them use them. Don't want to argue but your just as hurt with a ounce lead ball from a shotgun as a 223 bullet.

 
"where do we draw the line?"
 
I think we have already drawn the line in the right place. I dont think we need to change it in either direction.
 
 

I would like to see the junior hunters be able to use semi-auto shotguns for deer. Alot less recoil, shorter effective range so there shouldn't be any unloading across the field and slugs are not as dangerous as rifles when it comes to the length the projectile can travel...
 
 

Alot less recoil, shorter effective range so there shouldn't be any unloading across the field and slugs are not as dangerous as rifles when it comes to the length the projectile can travel...

As much as I tend to agree with alot of what you post, this I have to say I do not.  Just because there shouldn't be _____, doesn't mean in real time that there wont be ______.  Think drunk driving.  Human nature dictates that not all of us are on the same wave-length.  You'd have LOTS of youth hunters unloading on the fly.  They do it now with rifles.

Also, the heavier slug goes a whole lot further than most people realize. It takes a whole lot more mass to stop one than does their "caliber" cousins.  That is especially true with ricocheted misses.

I would much rather see mandatory range testing than ever seeing semi-autos in any deer season for any hunter/shooter. 

  I should have stated "with proper adult supervision". They are juniors and should have a responsible adult near by..I say that with a little sarcasm as we know some of the adults are the same fellas that empty their clips.
  I mean shotguns only. NY doesn't allow rifles they are to dangerous. You can use semi auto shotguns though. Would I want to take a richochet slug in the back?? No..But with a shot gun I can't kill some one a mile or more away either as with a rifle..
Personally I would like to see the whole state go to shotgun only like NY. Would stop all that long range stuff.

I'd think that is something we'll never see in our lifetime or our childrens.  Too much tradition in PA for that.