I don't disagree, but what about the guys that want to spear a deer? How about the new airguns, I have had more then one person say they could kill a deer. DO they get a season? Breaking us down into subgroups is gonna bite us in the ass someday. I would submit that the muzzleloading crowd would not even exist if they had not allowed them to be used in shotgun only areas many years ago. That was brought on by STUPID people, like I said earlier, using magnum CF to hunt in suburbs. It caught on as I recall, mostly in kit form or custom builders. Don't forget the handicapped season, they allowed them to shoot from cars some years ago in Maine. A bunch of guys were watching a spikehorn that was between two houses debating what 100 yards was, most people have no clue about distances, when a car pulled up and didn't even stop rolling when the guy fired and killed the buck....I have lots of stupid people stories, and I was the zealot because I wanted people to go into the woods and hunt. Now we are talking about what I can hunt with,in a special season, just for me. Everyone draws the line in a different place, some have no line.
Since I likely will never hunt an Elk, let alone in NM, you use whatever power you have to change the laws. But limiting laws will limit you someday and if it's popular, people with enough money will flock to your state and take away your tags. $$$$ makes the rules.