Why should a sportsman want to hunt with a bow when a gun offers a muck better opportunity to secure game? Granted more game can be taken with a gun. Records com piled by the State of Michigan show that one in three gun hunters can be expected to bag his deer while only one in twenty bowmen were able to accomplish this feat during the 1954 season. However, why do more and more fishermen change from heavy poles and lines to fly fishing and spinning with light tackle? The answer in part is that sportsmen are seeking more fun in their favorite sports by handicapping them selves. There is more thrill to a rising fish than to a dead one; and tomorrow the fisherman can try his skill again.

Hunting seasons are of short duration and opportunities to engage in a hunt with firearms for the larger game animals are limited to a few days in camp once a year. We work for our living and cannot arrange to be absent from our work for the period of the entire deer season, short as it is. Were more week-end periods available to us, we would have more oppor tunity to enjoy our favorite sport.

Sportsmen in the United States are conservation minded. Year after year we have seen our bag limits reduced and the season shortened in an effort to maintain a reasonable supply of game. Almost without exception the sportsmen have sub mitted without protest to what appeared to be a necessary cur tailment of their days of hunting. So conservation minded have we become that efforts to reduce the deer herd where food shortages cause increasingly heavy kills has brought about serious and determined opposition when an open season has been declared on deer of either sex. What then can be done to increase the length of the hunting season so that we can enjoy more week-ends afield over a longer period of the year? Archery Equipment - Read More.