I had to think about this for a couple days before I responed. I don't want to change the direction of this thread and make it into a crossbow debate. My first thought is a crossbow is not comparible to a compound or trad. bow. I don't want to get into a debate on this thread it's just my opinion. I keep wondering why bowhunters are treated like the step-childern in Pa. Why do we as Pa. bowhunters have a bullseye on are back with the commissioners. From all the polls and the conversations I've had with other bowhunters I meet hunting and 3-d shoots through out the state the crossbow is not wanted in the archery season. Yet the commissioners and the manufactors keep pushing it in every slut they can untill they eventually have it in the archery season. it seems to be thry're altimate goal. If they think it's going to make such a big impack on the deer herd then put it in rifle or give it it's own season. The commissioners have already made it clear that if the buck harvest increases in the archery season the biologist will recommend our season shortened. If thats the case why add another eliment to the season. I think they should add a hunters committee to the commission so we have a voice in the decision making. Maybe we could get some of the politics out of game management.

The only thing I don't see in last year and this years proposal is what is Alt doing to adress the declining deer numbers in some counties or state game lands. I hunt SRA so I'm excited to see the increased time I'll have to hunt. The problem is still excessibility to privet land. I'm consistly looking for new properties to replace the ones I lose through urban squaw. Increasing time and tags won't decrease the deer numbers if the proporties are not excessible. He has to come up with programs or incentives for private property owners to open land to hunters in SRA. I also have a problem with these little groups that tie up all the private land around Delaware and Chester counties. I know of three or four groups that may tie up 20-30 properties and have only 10-15 members. How many properties do you need to harvest a couple deer? Alt needs to devert land owners with different incentives so more hunters have opportunities to these small tracts of land. Now with crossbows add to SRA the added hunter numbers will make it even harder to find open properties. YOU ASKED. LOL Jerry