Their logic made no sense whatsoever in suggesting this was a reaction to the increased mule deer kill by inlines. Totally baseless so far as I can tell. Best figures I could find showed Idaho muzzleloader hunters (all of them) took 1.8% of the mule deer total harvest. One can easily see how - with that much success - inline hunters are destroying the Idaho mule deer herds.

http://www.muledeernet.org/statusidaho.htm 2005 figures. If someone has data for last year, please provide link.