Both PETA and the HSUS have stated publicly that they will strive to get bowhunting banned and that they will be targeting bowhunting as part of their greater strategy to eliminate all hunting . Their initial goal is to get it banned in a single state in order to establish legal precedent , then take their idiotic fight to other states until bowhunting is eliminated . Banning bowhunting is just the foot in the door however , they eventually want to get all hunting banned . Of the two the HSUS is much larger and much better funded , IMO they are the greater threat since nearly anyone who has ever heard of PETA thinks of them as total flakes . The HSUS is also frequently mistaken for the American Humane Society , who don't particularly like hunting but don't campaign against it . The AHS runs many of your local animal shelters , HSUS is an entirely political org whose mission is to end all hunting and other animal use . The best weapon we have is to educate the non-hunting public as to the importance of hunting to our state game agency's game management plans , and the part that hunters and fishermen play in conservation and public land aquisition and maintenence .