I'm in Sullivan County, PA which was always a big hunting county. There were always bow hunters in the county but in the past gun hunters out numbered them by a big number. Not so today. The old hunting camps are disappearing being replaced by private homes and younger people and those younger people tend to be bow hunters if they hunt at all.
I am seeing way more big bucks being taken by bow hunters than gun hunters in the past few years and I think that trend will continue.
To your point due to all of the new neighborhoods going up the only thing you can do is bowhunt. I know where I am at it is all slowly turning over to bowhunting only due to the proximity of houses. I know a guy who has a farm here and he can't gun hunt on it due to how close the houses are now.
