Of course it would shorten the season. Less deer are taken in archery season then in a firearms season. If everyone could hunt with a firearm, starting when the archery season would open and hunt the same number of days that are now hunted, it would change the whole dynamics of the harvest and in order to prevent an over harvest the season would have to be shortened and a good chance of less antlerless licenses being available as well. Seasons are set using a lot of data to attempt to kill a certain amount of deer, both buck and doe, what you want would be a shot in the dark and irresponsible for a game agency to do after years of data and research pointing the direction to take. Setting seasons on whims is a real bad idea No flawed reasoning here. The private property thing is a kick in the teeth to those who don't have access yet buy the same license at the same price. It is a bad idea all the way around. Perhaps somewhere there s a state where tis could be done due, to too few hunters to harvest the nuber of der that should be removed but I can assure you in my state it would be a disaster of the highest proportion. As a good friend of mine was fond of saying,"if the Delaware bay was in Pennsylvania, it would be a biological desert", pounded to death.