ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
My understanding is that the UBNJ only represents a small percentage of the total number of bow hunters in NJ. It would be interesting to see the results if an effort was made to poll a sample of ALL bow hunters in the state as well as a sample of ALL hunters and get their reaction. I think that those in favor of the crossbow would be much, much greater than 50-50.
The President of the UBNJ is doing a great job of making an a$$ out of himself over this issue.But the more outrageous the claims of the anti-bow hunters get, the more they shoot themselves in the foot.
They did. Sent out random surveys. Got back 5X the expected amount. View it here:
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/2008 ... rvey07.pdf
Brief summary:
When broken down by user groups, total support was still in favor of crossbows:
bow & gun hunters, 72%; gun-only hunters, 79%; bow-only hunters, 67%. The
majority of non-deer hunters were also in favor of crossbows (56%).