Arrows are reusable. In much of MD, hunting is shotgun only or bowhunting, not rifle--which is okay, because few shots there are over 150 yards. (My Dad has harvested whitetail at 175 yards with a shotgun and rifled slug (sabot), but he has always been, and still is, an exceptional shot.
The southern third of Michigan was always shotgun only until this year. Now we can use rifles chambered for straight walled cartridges 35 cal and over and a case length of 1.16” - 1.8”, that includes 44 mag rifles.
I picked up a Ruger 77/44 bolt-action and love it, got one for my son too.
More accurate than shotgun slugs with far less than half the recoil. Much cheaper to shoot and you can reload your own. They have about the same effective range as shotgun slugs. 4 deer so far this year and all one shot kills.
Ohio, Indiana, and southern Michigan were former shotgun only, but now allow those types of rifles. You should prod your state into allowing them too.
http://ruger.com/products/rotaryMagazine7744/models.html