I've been hoping that for the past 20 years and my hopes have been dashed on pretty much an annual basis every year since. It's well beyond the point of no return and itwill go further. Further, at least, until technology takes archery gear so far that the speed and range of high tech equipment will no longer allow it to be used in special 'safety zone' units, or untilhunter success ratios get so high the seasons start being cut back or eliminated, andwe get lumped in with gun seasons.

Ifbows are lumped in with gun seasons, then that will be the end of the big archery companies. Nobody but the few diehards and wierdos will hunt with bows, or crossbows either for that matter,when they could be using rifles instead. If they won't hunt with them, they won't be buying them. No customers, no business.The big companies must know this, I think, but apparently they're either extremely short sighted about the future or areless concerned for the future of the sport than they are in making the most money possible, RIGHT NOW.

On the positive side, most of those diehard and wierdo bowhunters left overwill be US, the traditional and primitive archers. And, eventually, we'll get together and go back to the game commissions and begin the long process of getting special archery seasons set up for traditional equipment. Maybe next time we can do it right and keep it that way.