Lets see if I can stir it up here.
I am sort of ok with the law. What it was trying to do, but missed by a bit I think, is to keep people from running around with high powered rifles all the time. Remember at the time of the making of the hunting with nothing bigger thana 22 there were no 22-250 or 223 or 222 etc or at least you did not hear of them much. All those weapons became popular after the law was made in Canada. Plus with everyon always carying around a high powered rifle it was very temping to some to just shoot the deer out of season on the edge of the road. I don't think the law did much to slow poaching but that was the attempt and to change a law after the fact it is very hard to do. Kinda like the law in Fredericton that states if you have no money on you, they can put you in jail. What in the world was that going to stop?
this is only my humble opionion.