When I began bowhunting six decades ago, I could not have predicted the colossal advances in the technology we use to harvest game, particularly the changes in archery equipment. Yet bowhunters today face challenges that I did, then and now: the need to close the distance on an animal and make an ethical kill with an arrow.
This challenge and low odds of success allows archers to hunt during the elk rut, when bull elk are most vulnerable. But it’s still normally difficult, requiring archery skill, hunting expertise and a strong measure of perseverance, and often good luck. Many dedicated hunters and conservationists have worked extensively to establish and maintain this special season reserved only for those who hunt with stick and string.
The ensuing years have seen a number of attempts to diminish Montana’s bowhunting traditions by allowing the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Just no. Ridiculous. People should realize their strengths and weaknesses.
Not only is our wildlife diminishing from years ago, but in times of old the elderly, the infirm, the blind, and the disabled could not and did not hunt. There’s no realizing any ‘potential’ here.
There were no high-tech weapons and vehicles. Only the strongest hunted, and provided for/protected the group.
Or, people should realize their strengths and ‘challenges’ is perhaps a better way to put it, in these politically correct times.
But, in modern times, we really have to ask ourselves what is more important – the ‘right’ of a human being to do whatever they want, including take the life of another sentient being, or the animal’s life. Nowadays, when modern medicine has made it possible for more people to survive, and the infertile to have multiple children, non-human life is extremely pressured. It’s unfair, and both political parties seem to put a very broad definition of human ‘self-actualization’ above anything else.
I support our diminishing wildlife and want them to survive too.