I did recently read an interesting statistic in one of my hunting rags (can't remember which one at the moment-perhaps F&S
) that showed the success rate of bowhunters over the past twenty years. Now that I think of it, it was probably Illinois Game and Fish because I believe that it showed harvest numbers by county.
Anyhoo...while there were obvious cylical years based upon weather and other conditions, by and large, bowhunters are taking more deer in just about every state than they did years ago.
I believe that along with better knowledge and education, hunters have access to better equipment, clothing, and the like. When one considers the ever shrinking available land on which to hunt, this is amazing to me.