Also need to think about season structure or how the Colorado Bowhunters Ass pushed a extreme "elk only agenda" during the past 5 year and succeeded in getting the mule deer archery season pushed back a entire week starting in 2020. Or basically the CBA only cares about elk hunting and told deer hunters to pound sand in the last 5 year study....
If you did not follow the entire debacle - archers lost a entire week of hunting or more for the next 5 years.... Archery deer now has the worst start dates in the past 40 years... Another fact is that some years archery guys will have a total of 4 days before muzzy hunts and high country rifle hunters start flinging shots of 600, 700, or 1000 yds across basins. Not safe at all for the archers...
Needless to say both the CPW and the espically the CBA threw mule deer archery hunters under the bus in favor of archery elk hunters and with the season dates I am looking at muzzy as honestly after the rifle and muzzy hunts start the archery season is pretty much over anyway.