ORIGINAL: DougE
Sproul,I'm not wrong.The antlerless kill is controlled by the number of allocations,notby the different weapons or season.I've never once seen a hunter in the woods during inline aseaon and I hunt that season myself.I don't think deer are hard to shoot in any season.
Where are you getting any information that crossbow hunters will shoot first doe they see?Even is they did,it wouldn't matter.The antlerless kill is controlled by the allocations that you so often complain about.
At one time,biologists stated that if our archery buck kill went up much more than it is now,the season would have to be shortened.That's what all the fuss is about.It has nothing to do with more deer being killed.
if I didn't hunt with a bow,I still would have killed just as many doe because I had x number of tags and killing them with a rifle is much easier.
i get my info from talking to hunters.
a lot of non archery hunters WANT to use crossbow.
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
because they wont take time to practice with compound bow and THINK that the crossgun is a 60 yd gun that you dont need to practice.
NONE OF THESE HUNTERS I KNOW EVER HUNTED TO GET BUCK,they are fill freezer hunters.
they want that doe meat before gun season and crossbow they feel will do it.
they are same hunters that bought a in-lines ,they want deer meat and cant get it unless they hunt for year.
its all race now to get MEAT,very few care for horns other than a few of us that take hunting with passion, not for meat.