No it won't be destroyed, it would be shortened. If that many new archers were to embrace archery, I would gladly embrace the change and the shortened seasons. If they were to allow a new and different weapon to take up 30% of the allocated archery harvest, I would have an issue with that.
Well, lets look at that fear.
In 2004, hunters in New Hampshire registered an estimated 10,080 deer for the season, a 7 percent increase over the previous year.
Lower deer harvest figures seen in the state during 2001 and 2003 were the result of higher-than-normal winter severity impacts, followed by restricted antlerless hunting opportunities enacted by Fish and Game in 2001 and 2003.
"It appears as if deer numbers are recovering and, if the winter weather cooperates, deer numbers should continue to rebound in New Hampshire for the 2005 season," says N.H. Fish and Game Deer Project Leader Kent Gustafson.
If that is true .......... how has your archery season been effected in the past 5 years simply with the fluctuations of deer herds ?
Also, you and I both know that your archery hunters numbers have increased over the past 20 years - every year more and more hunters. Have ya'll ever had a decrease in archery season ?
Ever ?