You can pick up a lot of the deer tags as left overs if you still want to deer hunt. Most of the timbered units have plenty of deer to be had but the hunting is tougher since you can't glass them up.
This buck was right at 160” mostly due to mass, extra eye guards and deep fronts. I believe he was around 8-10. We’ve killed a few bucks that were 4.5 and 5.5 in the area and this bucks teeth were worn down over twice as much.
This buck is 4.5yrs and 184”, I think he would have been quite a...
The only extinction I know of in the lower 48 in recent years is the woodland caribou in WA. The woodland caribou were ultimately whipped out by predators which were plentiful due to all of the liberals in WA state, the last woodland caribou was captured in 2018 and released with another herd...
Arrow weight has more to do with sound than anything else. Nothing is going to be quieter than your current bow, take it apart, clean it, grease it, make sure everything is tight and shoot a 500gr arrow and it will be as quiet as any other bow.