Ok Germster.......lets use your stats that I'm not supposed to fear.

I don't know our bowhunter success rates currently but for giggles lets say PA allows crossbows into the season and another 200,000 crossbow hunters are created in a year or 2 from the ranks of the 630,000ish rifle hunters who don't currently bowhunt.

Now use your math and stats and since PA is better than Ohio anyway we'll jump the success rate for PA crossbowers up to a nice round 25%.

25% of a new population of 200,000 guys in archery season equals 50,000 more dead deer if my math is right.

We've just added a nother 50,000 harvested deer in 6 weeks which will have to be taken into account for when they set the seasons and bag limits for the following year. (Especially when they see how the BUCk harvest will go up)

So in the following year when they tell me "Sorry man we have to cut the 2 weeks of Novemeber from the archery season because of the new harvest dynamic" I'm supposed to just bend over and say "Thank you sir may I have another"

It has already been written in nice dark print that if crossbows are allowed here in PA they are going to have to shorten the archery season. A season extended into November that was fought and gained by the United Bowhunters of PA and which we will most likely now lose at the hands of something we didn't want in the first place. YIPPY.[&o]

So in a wonderful state where we already cannot hunt on Sundays adding the crossbow will accomplish these wonderful things for us:
Shorter season due to an increased fall harvest, more crowding in the fall woods.
So when a state like Illinois is just starting to think about getting serious with their bows........ours will already be cased up for the season. We'll be done before Halloween just like we were before the UBP won the extension into the first 2 weeks of November.

Where can I vote yes.

Not sure how much I can say it or how many times, PA is not like Arkansas or Ohio that has been filetring crossbow hunters in for 30 years. We are too far gone here in PA in population, mentality and available land to hunt.
IF they really do fit a herd dynamic and a management plan and bowhunters can still find peace in other states like Arkansas that's great. It works for you guys but don't anyone who hunts elsewhere preach to me about what is going to work here when all your doing is spreading a false premise of good things to come.