Summer Study Committee

Cowboy Guns???

OK.. Jack got a reply from the IDNR and fowarded it to me per Glenn Salmon's request.

I was wrong. It is about "cowboy" rifles and not "cowboy" pistols..

Here is is..


"What Sen Waterman is looking to do is to make it legal to hunt deer with rifles (mostly lever actions) chambered in pistol calibers. These calibers are generally the ones cowboy action shooters use which include .45 colt, .38 special, and .44 mag., .44 special, .357 mag. Except for the .38 special, all of these calibers are legal for deer hunting with a pistol, so, in a rifle, would be sufficiently powerful (velocity gain in a longer barreled rifle in generally in the neighborhood of 10-20 %). Let me know if you need more info."

August 23,
LSA Staff:
Bernadette Bartlett, Fiscal Analyst for the
Committee
Steven R. Wenning, Attorney for the Committee
Authority: IC 2-5-5-1
Meeting Date: October 4 and 5th, 2005 th
Meeting Time: 1:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Ainsley's Café
15179 Old State Rd. 101
Meeting City: Liberty, Indiana 47353
Meeting Number: 3


Tentative Meeting Agenda
October 4 (Tuesday) 1:00 p.m. th

1. Call to Order
2. Out-of-state Boater Registration Process
3. Tillery Recreation Area
4. Residential Construction in Floodways
5. Forestry Issues–Ray Moistner, Executive Director
Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association
6. Cowboy Guns
7. Youth Free-Hunting Day
8. Taxable Marinas
9. Non-consumptive User Fees
10. Deer License Options
11. Seawalls - Jim Hebenstreit - Deputy Director, DNR Division of Water
October 5 (Wednesday) 10:00 a.m. th
11. Proposed Legislation
12. Approval of the Final Report
13. Adjournment


NATURAL RESOURCES STUDY COMMITTEE
Legislative Services Agency
200 West Washington Street, Suite 301
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2789
Tel: (317) 233-0696 Fax: (317) 232-2554

I noticed several posts on several sites, concerning the proposal on "cowboy guns".

I have seen where one high ranking organized hunting group official has slammed the idea....just based on the fact that the proposal was introduced by an elected official.

I think the quote was:

""When was the last time a legislator knew what was good for wildlife?"

The elected official that introduced this proposal is Senator John M. Waterman, and here is his biography.

www.state.in.us/legislative/homepages/S39/bio.html

Biography:

Leadership Ranking Member, Governmental Affairs & Interstate Cooperation


Elected Indiana State Senate, 1994

Political Affiliation Republican

Standing Committees Agriculture & Small Business Committee

Criminal & Civil Procedures & Public Policy Committee

Public Affairs Subcommittee

Governmental Affairs & Interstate Cooperation Committee

Interstate Cooperation Subcommittee

**Natural Resources Committee**

Political Background Sullivan County Sheriff, 1986 - 1994

Honors Lewis Schmidt Law Officer of the Year, 1989

Outstanding Law Officer, 1983

Meritorious Certificate, 1979

Civic Activities Farmersburg Emmanuel Baptist Church

**Buck Creek, Greene County Muzzle Loaders Club**

Occupation Independent businessman

Former owner / operator contracting business

Personal Married, Cheryl; 6 children

Counties Served Clay, Greene, Knox, Monroe, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo