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Originally Posted by Stinky Coyote
justin, if the extra kills you mentioned come in the early bow season then they aren't going to come out of the late season...a tag filled is a tag filled....you seem to be saying that a new population of people is just going to all of a sudden move to alberta and take up bowhunting so the overall hunter numbers is going to grow dramatically from this? i doubt it, might see a bunch more bow permits sold but it will be the majority of existing gun hunters and once their tags filled they don't get to run out in rifle season and fill it again......SRD will be able to manage things just fine imo, they'll know how many bow permits are out there etc.......that would mean more bowhunters, less gunhunters....i'm all for that, bows are awesome....ALL bows(crossbow included)....no noise, super safe, landowners must enjoy bow season so much more....real close and personal hunting....
and some other point....alberta has oodles of game with hardly any population compared to land space....especially compared to some of those states....surely ab is as big or bigger than ohio yet they have more bowhunters than we have hunters....wonder what their total hunter numbers are etc.
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Actually, there's a vast number of landowners and people that are also mis informed, because they believe that Bow hunters wound more game than anyone. Throw Xguns into the mix now, and our Rep ( bow hunters ) will be tarnished even more now......Most people will only see an arrow not a bolt!!!