Bowfanatic, you call it selfishness. When you' ve only got one month of bow season and have been fighting off incursions by gun hunters into that one month for years, I call it survival. Even now, we have to share the last weekend of our season with a youth gun season. We managed to mobilize enough public support to get it limited to that. They wanted EACH weekend of bow season.

Sure, you can hunt with a bow in any general season here, but only if you have the stones to go and try to hunt with guns popping all over the place and bullets whizzing past your ears. I' ve had to belly crawl to the nearest ditch or tree way too many times over my lifetime.

And your memory of where all those bowhunters came from back in the 70' s is a bit different than mine. Before, you could go all season and not see another hunter. As soon as compounds were legalized, you' d run into 5 or 6 hunters every time you went out. Now it' s gotten to the point there' s a yayhoo in every tree and behind every bush in my old stomping grounds.

The sad thing is that we' ve got more bowhunters than ever, but the local archery clubs are all going downhill as far as membership and participation. Nope. These guys are NOT archers.

I can pretty easily imagine what it would be like when they finally legalize crossbows here.