I'm on both sides of the fence here. Its interesting to read this. Nice work chickory.

I do however take offense to the comments about shortened archery and not being allowed to take a buck. If this were done, me, along with countless thousands of other archers would not hunt at all. I have no qualms with the gun hunters. They do serve a vital purpose in our deer management. There are too many gun only hunters who have something out for us bowhunters. As for the earlier muzzleloader season, get rid of it. We never had it before and by the looks of things, its only compounding the herd reduction problem. The youth hunt is a good idea. We need that type of hunt to further stimulate the introduction of new hunters into this depleating number.

Sorry, but taking aim at us bowhunters is not cool. I do gun hunt, its limited, but I usually take the gun for a walk each year. I don't have anything against it. But, to those taking aim at just the bowhunters are usually people who have never tried bowhunting and their tru ignorace shines through with comments like that.