Originally Posted by BTBowhunter

I agree with most of what you just said except for the greed part. I'm gonna ask you to think about it this way. Hunters using archery equipment, up till now, have not been killing deer in numbers proportionate to their numbers. To put it another way, archery licenses amount to about a third of total hunting license but archers do not kill 1/3 of the deer. Thats why we have such a long season.

Now enter the crossbow. Lets just say for a moment that the kill goes way up this season. Should the guys who've been hunting with vertical bows have to give up their time because this NEW weapon came in? Maybe since the thing has a gun stock, the rifle season should be shortened to compensate?

All I would say is that a NEW weapon deserves a chance, but in it's own season so it can be tracked seperately, controlled seperately and worked into the management seperately.