Agree 100%! Let them use whatever weapon they want! Is there something wrong with a seperate crossbow season?
Other than there is no reason to, I don't suppose. I guess there should be a seperate handgun season ? A seperate shotgun from rifle ? A sepreate inline muzzleloader from caplock ?
Datamax, are you a moron?
Hmmmmmmm, lets see if I am.
Main Entry: mo·ron
Pronunciation: 'mor-"än
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from Greek mOros foolish, stupid
1 usually offensive : a mildly mentally retarded person
2 : a very stupid person
Well, I'm a senior tech at my job, I have a wife and 2 children and am awaiting news on my offer to buy a 2200 SF home with 5 acres for $150,000 +/- so nope, I'm probably not mildly retarded.
Very stupid ? I've developed a rock solid argument that you and the others are having an extremely hard time cracking - so no, probably not that either.
MS has has one of the top 5 deer populations in the country. Our deer herd in definitely booming and healthy enough. We don't have the soil or genetics to compete with Ohio. We also have a 4 month hunting season as is and kill over 350,000 deer a year. Gunners outnumber bowhunters 5-1. We can't handle an additional 50,000 hunters in the woods during bowseason. IMO, it would make our already extremely skiddish deer very hard to kill.
Could you handle 50,000 more compound/recurve/longbow bowhunters ?
Now it becomes clear. You don't WANT more bowhunters, do you ? Why ?
It could be you fear competition. Selfishness that you want to be able to hunt but you don't want others hunting around you unles they do it exaclty the way you want them too, right ? Tsk Tsk, same can be said of trad hunters when compounds came around.
It could be you fear overharvest ? Reduction in bag limts ? Reduction in season ? Tsk tsk, we know that doesn't happen, look no further than Ohio and Arkansas and other states that allow crossbows.
So now, why is it you cannot "handle" additional bowhunters ? Because truth is, they fill their tags with a rifle, or with a bow .... does it really matter at all how its done ? And with archery MORE difficult than rifle hunting, your deer herds could actually INCREASE if 50,000 rifle hunters put down their guns for bows.
And wouldn't that too be a good thing ?