About 20 years ago there was a contractor working in my building who claimed to be a "Professional Bowhunter", which I took to mean he had paid someone for a decal he could stick on his car window. He went on a rant about how his state (Kentucky) was going to destroy the deer herd by allowing gun hunters to hunt during the rut. What he really meant, of course, was that he was going to lose his monopoly on the best time to be in the woods.
Here we have four counties where firearms aren't allowed for deer hunting at all and they really hang some nice ones. That would be a disaster for most of the state where there are often too many deer and bowhunting just won't get the job done. In my county, there's a special early antlerless season. on private land only, just to keep the numbers down.
