Sure why not? Most in WI talk about the lack of deer, and the reasons why. It's earn a buck, it's liberal doe tags, it's baiting, it too many gun seasons, it's fill in the blank. We even hire 'deer czar's' to sort it all out for us. And now we have cross guns coming into the mix. Notice NOBODY is blaming wood bows. HA!
When the Joe & Jeb deer hunter hit the woods, and don't see enough deer to their liking. The rumbling & mud slinging will start all over. If the archery kill ratio jumps with cross guns in the mix, it'll be the next great deer hunting scape goat. If it jumps 5-10% look out. Other western states are currently looking at rise in success rates in their 'primitive' weapon seasons.. There will be precedent in this line of thinking.
That will be the time to advance the trad only season. It won't be hard to differentiate ourselves from the others. Hope we are at the ready. We are targeting other hunters as allies to preserve bowhunting. What we are trying to preserve really isn't bowhunting, especially with the cross gun decision. We are missing the boat here. We need to get the general public behind us, even for a short time. Then legislators will notice, only THEN we become a force for change. Not easy to do, but honestly, I think it can be done. We need NOT to show who we are, but who we are not. And we will NOT be the problem with bowhunting.