On bringing in new hunters ............ rifle hunters thaqt do the two season thing counts as bowhunters. Bowhunting in general gets attacked more so than rifle hutning partially due to lower numbers of bowhunters. Rifle hunters shooting compounds in archery season is a GOOD thing gor archery - and rifle hunters shooting crossbows in archery season is a GOOD thing too.
HUH? Rifle hunters count as bowhunters? Not sure where you're going here, guy.
Why would you consider it a good thing for rifle hunters to also bowhunt? Are you (again) trying to make the argument that it is because hunting is on the decline that we should allow more liberal seasons and a wider variety of weapons?