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<blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 229891" data-attributes="member: 709">These are the same guys who call rifle hunters greedy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Archery Statistics&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">28,481 - Archery licenses issued (26,114 resident, 2,367 nonresident)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">23,003 - Number of bow hunter license holders that hunted</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">8,900 - Number of deer taken by bow hunters (7,854 whitetails, 1,046 mule deer)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">39% - Bow license holder success rate</li>
</ul>83% - Hunter success for mule deer buck&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ( 2017 - 2450 tags = 2034 mule bucks taken by rifle )86% - Hunter success for antlerless mule deer&nbsp; ( 2017 - 900 tags += 774 mule doe taken by rifle ) When nearly 30% of mule deer taken were by bow I would say that bow hunters are having an adverse effect on population numbers and thus&nbsp; limiting the number of available tags.&nbsp; One would&nbsp; assume that a large portion of the mule deer taken by bow hunters are buck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obi-Wan, post: 229891, member: 709"] These are the same guys who call rifle hunters greedy. [B]Archery Statistics[/B] [LIST] [*]28,481 - Archery licenses issued (26,114 resident, 2,367 nonresident) [*]23,003 - Number of bow hunter license holders that hunted [*]8,900 - Number of deer taken by bow hunters (7,854 whitetails, [COLOR=#FF0000][B][U]1,046 mule deer[/U][/B][/COLOR]) [*]39% - Bow license holder success rate [/LIST] 83% - Hunter success for mule deer buck ( 2017 - 2450 tags = 2034 mule bucks taken by rifle ) 86% - Hunter success for antlerless mule deer ( 2017 - 900 tags += 774 mule doe taken by rifle ) When nearly 30% of mule deer taken were by bow I would say that bow hunters are having an adverse effect on population numbers and thus limiting the number of available tags. One would assume that a large portion of the mule deer taken by bow hunters are buck. [/QUOTE]

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