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Semi Autos legal to hunt big game in PA.
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2212203" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Hypothetically yes but unfortunately my archery license data only goes back to 2006 and my weapon specific harvest data only goes back to 2012.</p><p></p><p>Based on that info there was a bump in archery license sold the year crossbows were legalized from 260,000 to 275,000 in 2009 and increased yearly until it plateaued around 320,000 in 2014 and has held there for the past few years. However if you include the junior and senior combo licenses then the number continues to increase until last year when 56% of hunters held an archery license. This also coincided with a 90,000 total license decrease from 950,000 in 2006 to 860,000 in 2019 which tends to reinforce the idea that those who quit the sport in many cases were rifle only hunters.</p><p></p><p>Archery buck harvests however showed a bump from 31.5% in 2012 to 37% in 2013 where they stayed until 2019 and 2020 when they jumped to 45% of the buck harvest. So since I don't have any pre-crossbow harvest data and the increased harvest after that also coincides with an increased season length and an overall increased interest in archery hunting its hard to say how much of that increase can solely be attributed to crossbows.</p><p></p><p>Even if it did based on the data from other states the success rate between vertical bows and crossbows was only a few percent but nowhere near that of rifle hunters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2212203, member: 36999"] Hypothetically yes but unfortunately my archery license data only goes back to 2006 and my weapon specific harvest data only goes back to 2012. Based on that info there was a bump in archery license sold the year crossbows were legalized from 260,000 to 275,000 in 2009 and increased yearly until it plateaued around 320,000 in 2014 and has held there for the past few years. However if you include the junior and senior combo licenses then the number continues to increase until last year when 56% of hunters held an archery license. This also coincided with a 90,000 total license decrease from 950,000 in 2006 to 860,000 in 2019 which tends to reinforce the idea that those who quit the sport in many cases were rifle only hunters. Archery buck harvests however showed a bump from 31.5% in 2012 to 37% in 2013 where they stayed until 2019 and 2020 when they jumped to 45% of the buck harvest. So since I don’t have any pre-crossbow harvest data and the increased harvest after that also coincides with an increased season length and an overall increased interest in archery hunting its hard to say how much of that increase can solely be attributed to crossbows. Even if it did based on the data from other states the success rate between vertical bows and crossbows was only a few percent but nowhere near that of rifle hunters. [/QUOTE]
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