ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter

The 1% uptick is not really anything to celebrate. What is noteworthy is that we went from negatives to a positive in a time when the numbers have steadily dropped across the entire US.

the significance of stopping and reversing a trend is indeed large. Anyone who has a tough time accepting that idea needs to watch the replays of Harrisons interception and touchdown run repeatedly till it sinks in. Thats what just happened with license sales.



Rodger pointed out a plausible theory, so did Greg.

Here's my best case theory: Maybewe flushed out theone day punkin army crowd over the past 5 years and we've begun to spark some interestand recapture some of those that had grown tired of the spike and forkie parade every seasonby improving the quality of our bucks.


No matter what we all believe, the one point that screams for our attention is the continued drop among junior hunters. Whatever our differences ALL of us need to try to do our part to get another kid or two involved.