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Old 03-04-2013, 02:00 PM
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From your own quote:
"Further, 16,716 resident bowhunters hunted in mule deer in 2011 (under the general archery season). This compares to 13,454 succesful applicants in the antlered mule deer special license (- rifle season, out of 64,519 applications). This shows that there are more hunters utilizing the general bowhunting antlered mule deer opportunity than are currently successful in the resident/non-resident antlered mule deer (rifle) draw system. "

So aproximately 13,000 rifle hunters (from a much larger pool) had to run the draw gauntlet to get a crack at a 1 month season, but 16,000 bowhunters could just walk on with no draws and hunt for 3 months... On the surface that seems to me to be exactly why draws need to be applied to bowhunters. Obviously, however, it would be good to know what the hunter success rates are. If bowhunters are successful 1% of the time then let them hunt all year round with no draw for all I care, but all those bowhunting shows and commercials suggest the success rate is higher. LOL
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