Hmmm...this is just my opinion now...hope no one takes offense to this...but if they did away with archery and muzzleloader 2 things would happen. One would be you will have a lot of upset and pist of archery and muzzleloader hunters. And two there would be a lot of idiots running around the woods shooting anything that moves with their high powered rifles. Like I said no offense to those rifle hunters on this board. I too rifle hunt and consider my self a safe and respestiable hunter. I guess more or less it would be a saftey issue.