I think this post is spot on.

RE point C:

some guys are more into waterfowl hunting, coon hunting, trapping, college football, (fill in the blank) and only want to go hunt a couple days a year and shoot some venison for their family.

Most of us deer hunters on here prefer to hunt all season long from archery on Sept 15 to the the last day in January, but that does not make the other approach wrong...

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Originally posted by delaney:
I believe the HPR is driven by a) they want to be able to reach out and kill that nice buck that they can't get close enough with the current weaponry to kill b) they like the allure of shooting a long distance because its "cool" and c) guys who don't really want to hunt a lot of days and thus wish to make harvesting easier. I am unconvinced that it will dramatically increase total harvest.