" Oh, but wait a dog-gone minute here. When I quoted stats to show that IL, which does not allow crossguns carte blac, has more liberal bag limits for archery season than Ohio, who does allow them across the board...the wailing and whooping of "selfish" was heard throughout the land.
So, it's alright for you to use "do nothing to take away from archery season" as a litmus test, but not for people with whom you disagree? "
Are you then saying that crossbows are the reason Ohio has less of a season/less bag limits BECAUSE of crossbows ? I called the Ohio Division of Wildlife at (614) 644-3925 and asked if, since 1976 when crossbows were made legal if they could tell me if archery season had been shortened or bag limits changed for archery hunters and they said no and no. I browsed a bit and couldn't find hard stats on it so I called. IF there was a rduction of season or limit and crossbows were the reason, then I will admit you have a very strong point and would debate that and listen closely. I guess I am asking you to prove that a smaller season in OH is directly due to crossbows being legal - the G&F says no.
state hunters kills
Illinois 105,000 35,400 33.7%
Arkansas 70,000 20,500 29.2%
Ohio 180,500 26,000 14.4$
http://www.hoyesoutdoor.com/success.htm
Is archery season based on managment principles ? In other words, if the success rate climbs too high or if too many deer are killed are the seasons or bag limits scaled back ? Has this happened ? Success rates show the two states with crossbows actually having lower success rates. I don't know how the correlation is between how many archery hunters vs how many total hunters.
http://hunting.about.com/library/weekly/aa020716a.htm
A goog read.
Bill - You are right in that the title was not literal and that points have been made. My bussy is amazed at the crossbow animosity that still exists. I heard the other night at a meeting here in AR at a private company planning an on-grounds hunt that two guys - a compound shooter and a crossbow shooter, had to be seperated the argument got so heated. Amazing, isn't it ? And the compound shooter never once thought that a longbow/recurve shooter could have laid the same claims to him that he did to the crossbow shooter.
Is enough enough ? I HAVE been trying lately to let threads die (Jacko and the airline debates to name a couple) ... I will this one as well soon enough. And I will edit the Thread Title too ...
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