ORIGINAL: bowtruck
i agree sroul it may bring alot of new hunters in the early ses atleast for awhile not good
i hunt all private land that i control who hunts so i do forget the impacts
i just saw it as a advantage for me but i can do without i have killed many deer with
a bow
its to bad its most likely to late for anyone to do anything
unless people call their reps for their areas and such but that rarely does anything either
if there was lots of deer, i dont think many would be concerned .
right now with lack of deer in wmu2g, its hard to archery hunt .
then add in many new hunters stinky up woods, its going to be long hrs in woods then you area gets busted with STINKY.
thats my only complaint.heck, i dont like early gun/in -line season as i see doe taking it on chin .
there is just to much hunting with better weapons for number of deer that are left.
right now in archery, if i see a crossbow hunter,he is usually with just another hunter .
but i did see CREW of disabled crossbow hunters driving deer in archery,dont think they are not getting bucks doing that.
heck, 1 crew killed 6 bear on drive this year with BOW in early archery bear season, 6 bear on drive.
i asked the crew of 7, HOW DID YOU EVER GET 6 BEARDRIVING WITH BOW.
they said,SPROUL IT WAS CRAZYIST THING WE EVER SAW, THE BEAR ALL CAME OUT TO WATCHERS.
SO, IF TRUE THESE BOWS/crossbows ARE DEADLY
I ALSO SEE EARLY ARCHERY BEAR SEASON BEING AS BUSY AS FIRST DAY OF GUN BEAR SEASON IF CROSSBOWS ARE ALLOWED.