As long as you archers [:-]attack anyone else who wants to hunt a certain way in the public woods, i will call attention to your behavior! Is it not true that you do not want anyone else in your woods when you are hunting and feel that you are the only entitled group to hunt the rut? That small game hunting during your hunting time should be banned? Have i not already heard your argument against all these hunting styles? You won't say your elitists and snobs yet you rail on that only you have earned the rights to hunt during bow/rut! Any other hunting type is for poachers, non-hunters and they are not real archers.Then you tell me when to hunt, raining can;t hunt, might be the only time i vcan get out!!I started w/ a Fred Bear bow 45# recurve and wood arrows, on my own! No one explained what I was doing right and wrong I learned on my own.I knew how far I could shoot humanely even at a young age. I heartily grasped the compund as a more humane way to kill deer because i saw them as a better sighting and faster killing platform.What about that does not describe a Xbow, or is it that you ONLY have the infinite wisdom and sportsman morality to only shoot to the 30 yard line? That is when I get pissed.....it seems only you and livbuks have the capability to monitor your hunting activities and NO one else is smart, sportsmanlike or intelligent enough to say NO to certain hunting situations. We allow you, but not you in the woods on these days! That attitude will not endear the Arch community (which is shrinking) to the hunting community. We need to support each other, share the woods w/ each other and get ready for the fight we have coming. If that is antagonize, so be it.................
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You are simply wrong on so many levels. You called for a shortening of the archery season why? Just to antagonize archery hunters? It sure seems that way.No legitimate reason exists for that request. Rifle hunting still accounts for a far larger portion of the deer kill than archery per particpant. The best way numbers can be controlled is via antlerless tags. There is no reason to shorten anyones season.

The concern of archery hunters about the effects of adding a weapon to the season is legitimatewhen we havent seen any credible evidence that an increase in either harvest or participation in a state with 300,000+ bowhunters won't cause cries for a shorter season from non archers. Archery season is long for one reason, because in it's present state, it has a low impact on the herd. Much lower proportionally than any other weapon.

Any change in the weaponry that might improve hunter odds could threaten the season length. That question should be adressed before we take an irreversible step.

Like it or not, archers earn the long season by accepting the limitations of the weapon they choose. Pennsylvania archers also earned this longer season by working long and hard tolobby thePGC for the two weeks in November. It is right and reasonable for those of us who worked for this season to not give a warm welcome to someone wanting to bring in a weapon that makes things easier that may well threaten thebenefits ofour hard work.

Your self righteousattitude is especially irritating coming from an outsider. You pay some property taxes, so what! big freakin deal! We live here, pay income tax and every other tax year round and should have more say than an outside weeeknd warrior. If that offends you.... Too bad!

You have the crossgun in your own state. Ohio, I beleive, is shotgun only in the firearm season. How about I demand semi auto rifles in your seasons? How about rifles in your crossbow deer season? How would you likethat?

yet you want to introduce a weapon that already enjoys a season anywhere from 4 weeks up to up to almost 4 months in this state?