Your DNR ought to talk to our DNR, (Wisconsin), about allowing rifles State wide. We did, and nothing happened, nothing. Deer hunting has changed, most land is posted, more hunters hunt from elevated stands, fewer and fewer drives. Who wants to drive "their" deer off of their 5 to 7 thousand dollar an acres deer hunting land? Fewer and fewer guys shoot at running deer, and CWD has changed the DNR's goals for harvest.
But the biggest thing is all of the dire predictions of death from afar, by the usual suspects, failed to materialize.