Man, I think choose your weapon would not do what you think it would. All these "die hard" bow hikers would just all be crammed into rifle season. I think archery would see way less pressure, but it would make rifle that much worse.
There may be an argument that less pressure in archery would...
For everyone saying MD season in October will ruin November elk hunting, I assume your mechanism is bumping elk while hunting deer. I guess I don't see that happening for a couple reasons, depending on the area.
1. Elk and mule deer have different habitat preferences. If you are hunting...
For sure. Even the little logging projects the State or FS do make a noticeable difference in mule deer locally. Imagine what logging at the scale of the mid-1900s would do.
Which is the reason we need to start taking steps to limit technology in hunting. We are rapidly approaching the point where fair chase is getting questionable. I feel like rolling back technology and the strategies we use to do that need to start getting discussed now so we can have a hope of...
And stop some of these Type 2 BMA's from receiving $$$ and only letting their buddies and family hunt. That's fine, but they shouldn't be getting hunter funds if that is the way they want to operate.
I'm have high confidence that the incidental take of mule deer by elk hunters happens a lot in R3 and way more than people realize in R7, which is also addressed in the proposal.
I would rather not complicate it and would be perfectly fine going back to traditional only (recurves/longbows no sights) in archery season and open sites only in rifle season. This coming from a guy who can shoot a compound bow and rifle a long ways. At some point we have to consider what is...
I think the technology thing gets thrown under the rug. Growing up (I'm not even old) 300+ yard shots were very rare because there was no rangefinders. When UT came out with their "open sight only rifles" proposal (it got shot down) I thought it was an awesome idea. We are going to have to...