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I wish they would make the archery season in northern tier longer. Maybe start it when early bear opens up. I quit hunting ADK's 10 years ago. Never saw anyone anyway. You can bowhunt the entire season.
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I wish they would make the archery season in northern tier longer. Maybe start it when early bear opens up. I quit hunting ADK's 10 years ago. Never saw anyone anyway. You can bowhunt the entire season. I don't care if I am bow hunting I just want more time to hunt. I bear hunt now, but its a low probability thing, I see a bear about every 10 days I hunt in early bear, I would rather be deer hunting instead. I live right on the line between north and south, with the longer southern season I am going to conflicted where to go for the first couple of weeks of the season. Oh and I wish that they would make the licence year sept-1-Aug 31, as it is I lose the first couple days of bow season because its rare to have left over tags from the year before.
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Yea I never understood the Oct 1st thing. Don't know why it's done that way.
I hope a one buck per year rule is next. Any season, any weapon, one buck.
And baiting bear.
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I believe adding the early weeks in Oct for Bow will open later dates for crossbow/ MZ Dec just using this Route
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PA went thru the same crossbow haggle some years ago. They were originally only allowed in archery season with a special permit, based on a doctor's "note" describing allowable achy parts, to qualify for the crossbow permit.
That rapidly became a joke, as the number of such permits increased year after year. Then crossbow manufacturers began coming to Game Commission meetings, lobbying for inclusion in all archery seasons. They were intitally allowed in firearms seasons and muzzle loader seasons (had to buy the MZ stamp).
Some PA bowhunters' orgs fought "inclusion" in archery season for years, but finally lost that battle. Crossbows are now legal in archery seasons here. From a statistical standpoint, they really haven't raised the number of archery licenses all that much, nor have they affected total archery kills all that much (yet), but they have done so a bit.
The crossbow battle caused lots of rifts in the hunting community that still exist today. Same for more firearms and youth seasons in what was once "archery only" parts of the fall.
As for NY, I hunt just across the state line from Steuben County, NY and have for over 50 years. Never made much sense to me that those southern tier NY counties only allowed shotguns for deer? Glad they finally went to rifle deer hunting, might finally get a NR license this year, so I can hunt over in NY. Many of my kinfolks already do, some have lived in NY most of their lives.
I tend to disagree that offering more youth hunting opportunities doesn't bring more kids into our sport. PA license sales have shown slight increases the past two years, with much of that coming via JR licenses and Mentored Youth Hunting permits.
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PA went thru the same crossbow haggle some years ago. They were originally only allowed in archery season with a special permit, based on a doctor's "note" describing allowable achy parts, to qualify for the crossbow permit.
That rapidly became a joke, as the number of such permits increased year after year. Then crossbow manufacturers began coming to Game Commission meetings, lobbying for inclusion in all archery seasons. They were intitally allowed in firearms seasons and muzzle loader seasons (had to buy the MZ stamp).
Some PA bowhunters' orgs fought "inclusion" in archery season for years, but finally lost that battle. Crossbows are now legal in archery seasons here. From a statistical standpoint, they really haven't raised the number of archery licenses all that much, nor have they affected total archery kills all that much (yet), but they have done so a bit.
The crossbow battle caused lots of rifts in the hunting community that still exist today. Same for more firearms and youth seasons in what was once "archery only" parts of the fall.
As for NY, I hunt just across the state line from Steuben County, NY and have for over 50 years. Never made much sense to me that those southern tier NY counties only allowed shotguns for deer? Glad they finally went to rifle deer hunting, might finally get a NR license this year, so I can hunt over in NY. Many of my kinfolks already do, some have lived in NY most of their lives.
I tend to disagree that offering more youth hunting opportunities doesn't bring more kids into our sport. PA license sales have shown slight increases the past two years, with much of that coming via JR licenses and Mentored Youth Hunting permits. Great post. Don't thing the New York Bowhunters Association will agree. They are truly color blind on this subject. Time will tell. I hope the youth weekend is safe and brings in a large number of kids. I will do my part by taking out a young man.
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