NC doesn't keep tabs on hunters' "success" rate.....but neighboring states do. In VA....29% of archers are "successful" in harvesting a deer with their bow. In WV.....it's 20%. In SC....it dips to 8%. In PA....there were 375,000 deer taken during the firearms season. If we're to believe that PA has 1M firearms hunters, that's a "success" percentage of over 37%.

So it would lead one to ask.....

Which is "easier"?

I just read these figures and found them interesting.