The data may not be subjective, but how one interprets the data is absolutely subjective. For instance, I could say the 2014 harvest would have been 105,000 animals under the 2009 regs. I don't necessarily believe that to be true...but that is what the data suggests.
Regarding archery versus crossbow data...Table 3 on page 10 tells the real story.
We could "what if" the data all day by taking or adding things from it that don't exist.
And we could spit/spat all day long about whether the archery/crossbow totals should/should not be included together, but in the table I referenced the dnr did so, so I did the same.
Regardless, even if you split the data, my original point still is valid. Bowhunters are taking a larger share of the harvest while firearms hunters are taking a lower share and that's happening without moving/shortening the gun seasons and adding the late antlerless season in as well.
