That's an interesting post Arthur put up and one I never considered before. However, I wonder what the gun harvest numbers look like and if they are similar. I would also think the increase in bowhunters would make it difficult for the seasons to be shortened, unless of course we just rolled over and let them do it. It would make more sense to adjust the bag limits, especially for the gun hunters. I took a hunters safety course last year and the guys giving it worked for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. They said there had been conversation for some time of lifting the bag limits and letting each county set there own due to the abundance of deer. Now that certainly wouldn't be the case in some states. It would also seem to me that if the tech advancement in archery was a reason more people were getting into the sport, that would seem like a very good thing as it would give us a larger, more formidable group that could stand up for our hunting rights and not let the gun hunters push us around because we were taking "their" deer.