Sacrificing weapon quality for buck/herd quality and opportunity

Will this help buck/herd quality and who is willing to put down their rifle to hunt deer more often?

  • It will help the herd/buck quality and I’m willing to hunt deer with a “primitive weapon”

    Votes: 59 56.2%
  • It won’t help the herd/buck quality and it’s just taking away rifle hunts that will never come back

    Votes: 30 28.6%
  • Leave everything the way it is

    Votes: 14 13.3%
  • Make a muzzleloader specific general season in between the archery and rifle season

    Votes: 10 9.5%
  • Something else, please explain in the comments

    Votes: 6 5.7%

  • Total voters
    105

CMF

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Yeah limiting archery success is the harder weapon to address. Archery success and participation from 2000 to know is up considerably. Maybe limit it to 1 pin / no slider.
I'm saying its already so limiting, adding regulations to archery sights is just creating unnecessary regulation... Don't mess with it
 

SDHNTR

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Exactly, just make archery traditional only. Done deal
How is this even in the same conversation as limiting rifles capable of killing big game at 1000 yards?

An 80 yard weapon like a modern compound bow doesn’t need more limitations.

Again, the need for common sense abounds.
 

JFK

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It’s nonsense to suggest that rifles that can effectively hit things at 3x the distance they used to havent changed anything with regard to efficacy and success. How could that be possible?

I use one, and don’t feel bad about it. But if a game agency recognized there was an issue and made some changes to address it I don’t think I’d judge them that harshly.

It would hurt opportunity….a lot. Some people would go out and buy a bow or a muzzleloader. Probably quite a few wouldn’t. and they’d stop hunting or go elsewhere. Some of the ones that did adopt primitive gear would learn it’s much harder, not get a deer for multiple seasons and then quit. I’ve hunted in areas that have both rifle and primitive sections and the primitive sections are universally less crowded on every day of season.
 
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