Archery is just {great} the way is stand's. People shouldn't 

 have to pick between archery and regular hunting season. You now 

 it is supposed to be a free country. If that was to happen, it 

 would take away freedoms we are supposed to have. 



Lots of people have big money in each sport. Mayself I have 

 about $1500.00 in just my gun and equipment for regular season, 

 then archery about $1000.00 in bow and equipment. Bussiness's 

 and The Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks would loss lot's of 

 money also. 



I think to choose either rifle or bow is the best way to improve 

 archery hunting. But lengthen the season so the archer can hunt 

 all the big game species. Maybe open antelope season in Aug. 



I am a serious and dedicated bowhunter of 16 years in Montana. 

 During that time, I have watched my sport & recreation 

 deteriorate due to increasing hunters, equipment advances, grunt 

 tubes, cow calls etc. and a lot of commercial hype - all contrery 

 to the original intent of the sport as a challenging one-on-one 

 encounter between hunter and prey. The sport has been 

 commercialized and popularized to the point of dragging into its 

 ranks those "hunters" with poor ethical standards looking for 

 easy kills from the backs of pick-ups. We don't need this. The 

 time of putting some quality back into the sport is upon us. I 

 believe we should implement an either-or season in Montana, not 

 because archers are biologically damaging the elk resource but, 

 because others have this perception and many of the less serious 

 bowhunters are damaging the sports image. We don't need these 

 people in our sport, and an either-or would weed them out. I 

 don't think we should apply economic concepts of more is better 

 and annual growth is healthy to the sport of bowhunting. Lets 

 put some quality back into it. 



We need a either archery or gun license - seperate the two. 



There are too many people out there using guns and making a farce 



out of dedicated Bowhunters you need a license strictly for 



bowhunter. 



And have better enforcement in the favorate areas. 



If you raise archery Fee to $20.00 I feel we should be able to 

 harvest a big game animal in both rifle & archery. I am very 

 strong l y opposed to limiting hunting to either archery or rifle, 

 or to drawings for archery. 



Frankly, I'm quite happy about archery details as they are now - 

 with no major changes. 



It seems to me that maybe this survey is leading to the archery 

 choosing Bow or Gun. I have bow hunted for 18 years and rifle 

 hunted for 25. Although I don't claim to have all the answers, I 

 don't consider myself a rookie either. First of all, you can't 

 hurt (or manage) a game population by bow hunting. Too small of 

 a success percentage. The only thing you will do is loose 



