grizz:"Is it your position that Public Land deer are mature, numerous and need to be culled at a greater rate?"
Strawman argument, I never said that.
My position is that there is *no* logical or biological reason to disallow crossbows during arhhery season; that allowing them would increase hunter recruitment/retention, and would increase license sales and therefore help fund TPWD.
Since crossbows on public land seems to be your primary concern, there is a simple remedy for that: disallow them on public land. Similar restrictions are already in place on many public lands (restricted to shotguns only in some cases, shotguns, muzzle loaders, and bows in others, etc.) Since most hunting in Texas is on private land, such restrictions would affect the fewest hunters while freeing the rest to hunt private lands with crossbows during archery season.
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