I just noticed this bit of news and didn't see it here yet:
While it isn't something I would do (I am just not into hunting). It is an interesting recognition that there are some reasonably powerful air-guns in use.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission passed new hunting regulations for the 2018-2019 hunting seasons, voted to obtain new public fishing access areas on the White and Little Red rivers, and approved a funding mechanism for restoring bobwhite quail habitat Thursday at its monthly meeting in Little Rock.
The regulations package contains 57 items, many of which clarify or simplify existing regulations. One item will make it legal to take deer with big bore air rifles. Legal air rifles for taking deer must be at least .40-caliber that produce a minimum of 400-foot pounds of muzzle energy and that are charged from an external tank and propels a single expandable slug. Air rifles meeting these criteria also would be allowed for taking deer in Deer Management Zones 4, 4B, 5 and 5B.
Steven Fowler, assistant chief of the commission's wildlife management division, said public comments supporting the regulation outnumbered comments opposing it. He also said many opponents misunderstood the proposal.
"A lot of them didn't understand what was meant by big bore air rifle," Fowler said. "They thought it meant BB guns."
While it isn't something I would do (I am just not into hunting). It is an interesting recognition that there are some reasonably powerful air-guns in use.