When? Before there was a specific archery season. The first archery season was in 1951. The horn hunters don't like the archers having first crack at the buck and the archers want to keep pushing the season earlier and longer. I have been around a long time as well and I knew the guy who was responsble for having an archery only season, an ex olympic archer from Lancaster Co. and I watched what is happening. Too bad Ed Wentzler is not still speaking for the UBP.