Bluebird2, deaddeer, ddear beenthere is being especially dingenuous. He has consistent in his criticism of all PA harvests claiming the harvest goals are to large statewide yet he professes support for an additional weapon that clearly, by the numbers he provided, skewed the archery harvest. His motivations and agenda appear more and more seem to be simply to cause controversy and to agitate those who have the audacity to dispute his consistant deluge of statistical distortions.
What is disingenuous is claiming that the PGC may reduce the length of the archery season due to an increase in the total archery harvest when the PGC promoted harvesting more doe in Oct. verse in the concurrent season.
If you knew where to find the harvest data and knew how to interpret it, you would see that while the buck archery harvest in 2G increased by 70%,the antlerless harvest increased by over 100%. So introducing x-bows in 2G did exactly what the PGC wanted it to do ,which was to increase the harvest of antlerless deer in OCT. The significant increase in the harvest had no adverse effect on the breeding rate because the B/D ratio was not effected significantly. However, the potential exists for it to have an adverse effect on genetics over the long term ,since more big bucks are being harvested before the rut.