RE: Ban compounds from archery season - thoughts ??
<font color=red>"Are you then saying that crossbows are the reason Ohio has less of a season/less bag limits BECAUSE of crossbows ?"</font id=red>
Nooooo...what I was saying what that it was hypocritical for you to use something as a litmus test, while I am deemend "selfish" for insinuating the same. We're back to the difference between "debate" and "hypocricy".
<font color=red>"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."</font id=red>
Bag limits haven't been changed since 1976 for bowhunters?
Well, in that same period of time, IL went from one deer per year to unlimited doe harvest and a two buck limit (with the exception of the EC 5 county zone). Wisconsin also went from a one deer per year state to multiple harvest, which is virtually unlimited in most zones.
You point again was?
<font color=red>"Success rates show the two states with crossbows actually having lower success rates."</font id=red>
The success rates figures (at least for IL) show the number of hunters versus the number of animals killed. I don't know how they compute them in OH or AR. A success rate of 33.7% is inflated in IL, since it doesn't take into account multiple harvest...which is unlimited in IL...but not in AR & OH.
For example, I am ONE hunter, but killed THREE deer in IL last year. Two of my buddies killed none. By that way of computing things, the three os us killed three animals, and therefore our sucess rate was 100%, when in reality it was only 33.33%.
I've seen the break-down from 1999 or 2000 (I forget which) that shows how many hunters took a given number of deer. You'd be surprised to see that the "top killer" in the state killed 14 deer that year, with hundreds upon hundreds of others following closely behind.
Comparing hunters versus dead deer in IL, which is unlimited harvest, with limited harvest states like OH & AR is apples & grapefruits.
JRW