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percent of archery hunters agreed
crossbows should remain legal.
If you're trying to sort what are
the best weeks to take a buck in
the archery season, Rosenberry
said the buck kill by bowhunters
continues to follow its historic
trend.
"The archery buck harvest
tends to increase as the season
progresses," he said. "We see
increases in deer activity as the
rut - in mid-November - approaches. This leads to more
hunter participation and a greater
chance for hunters to be successful afield."
This year, WMUs 4A and
Hal Korber
4C were added to the seven-day
Since 2009, when crossbows could be used by any antlerless season framework. The
bowhunter, archery license sales have grown by
only WMUs with a 12-day conmore than 10 percent.
current firearms season this fall
and Elk Section supervisor. "There is are: WMUs 1A, 1B, 2B, 3A, 3D, 5A,
no evidence to suggest, however, that 5B, 5C and 5D.
Rosenberry pointed out that hunter
crossbow hunters target bucks, nor
have they significantly increased the participation does not appear to have
changed in WMUs that went from a
bowhunter buck harvest rate.
"Prior to addition of crossbows as a 12-day concurrent season to a five-day
legal sporting arm for all bowhunters in antlered/seven-day concurrent season.
The opening Monday of the firearms
2009, archers took 11 bucks per 1,000
days of hunting," Rosenberry said. "Af- season still remains the magical day it
ter 2009, archers have been harvesting has always been for hunters statewide.
12 bucks per 1,000 days of hunting. "Nearly half of the antlered deer harThere's been no change for rifle hunt- vest in the 2013-14 season was taken
ers since 2009; they continue to take on the opening day of our firearms
season," Rosenberry pointed out.
30 bucks per 1,000 days of hunting."
Crossbows are taking a larger por- "There also are more adult bucks in the
tion of the state's overall deer harvest population than any time in recent hissince their legalization. That means tory. Most, however, are still 2½ years
more hunters - and surely some verti- old, so they would not be considered
cal-bow hunters - have warmed up to mature in the sense of reaching 4 or 5
hunting with crossbows. In fact, the years of age. We have not detected any
2011 Deer Hunter Survey showed 54 large-scale behavioral changes in the
percent of non-archery hunters and 58 deer herd with a larger percentage of
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