they never made you chose between archery and muzzy but when muzzys first came to PA, the growth rate exploded in a few short years causing the PGC to be concerned about the uncontrolled doe kill by the new muzzy hunters (hard to imagine now eh?)

What they did was put a limit on muzzy stamps and made a hunter surrender his doe license application in exchange for the muzzy stamp.

Also for a time. muzzyseason got shortened to 4 days.

At that time, early archery was 4 only 4 weeks long usually ending around November1.Late archery Started Dec 26 and ended very shortly afterNew year.

Ever since the early archery season was extended into November(which happened in the early 90's), there have been repeated efforts to take back that last two weeks by jealous, rifle only, hunters.Don't beleive for a minute that the coming of the crossbow won't refuel those fires