Well, in truth, I would wish for just "deer season" without the divisions. Maybe duck season for slingshots and then another for boomerangs? I am all in for less regulation and total freedom to hunt as ethical and honorable sportsmen and women.
I do not know about this deer shortage but the white tailed woods rats are killing my trees, stomping my garden, ate all my apples and are over running the place not to mention the one that summersaulted over my windshield after taking out a minivan. I am going to convert a few of them in my backyard to venison next year and I feel a whole lot better using non-bottleneck cartridge in the now built up area I live in. I would use my bow but too likely to run off on to another property, not good there.
What do I mean by that, well, a .308 has a crack that echos for miles and a bullet that potentially travels nearly as far and my 45-70 loaded at transsonic or subsonic velocity just makes a low kaboom and at less that 100 yards whatever it hits usually falls over dead.
But, that said, again, I am for just one season, if I had a vote, one long season, choose your hunting weapon as you wish and as suits the local environment. And if we could trust our fellow sportsmen to make good choices we would not need some of the regulations. But I figure we will have world peace long before some of the yahoos I see in the woods learn civility and sportsmanship and honor.
I had a college roommate for a little bit, an odd fellow, much older than me. Had been in Vietnam. His preferred hunting method was to climb into a tree and then wait for a deer to walk under. He would then jump down on it and slit it's throat. Not sure how he learned that method but should there be a specific season for hand to hand combat knife only hunters? Just kidding.
I think we have gotten off track from my initial inquiry. From my OP:
I read more and more on this as a growing thing in some states. Do such states allow lever guns or only primitive type or single shot?