Let's take a look back at the Advancements in deer hunting equipment in general. Keep in mind I'm speaking about the equipment that is legal for use in Ohio. I started deer hunting when I was about 13, I'm 53 now, so according to my math I've been doing it about 40 years.
I started out using a 12 ga shotgun with a smoothbore barrel, open sights and Remington Slugger 1 oz lead slugs. If you could hold a 3-4 inch group at 50 yards you were doing good. Then came the Rifled slug barrels with scopes and Sabot slugs. Decent groups at 100 yards were not difficult. The next advancement were the bolt action slug guns. I have a Savage 220 20 ga that I would be comfortable taking a 150 yard shot with. Now Ohio allows the use rifles with straight wall cartridges. This year I used a Ruger American 450 Bushmaster. That gun in the right conditions is easily capable of 200+ yard shots.
Muzzleloaders have gone from using a patch and round ball, black powder and a musket cap. Advanced to using sabot bullets, powders like Pyrodex, 777 and Blackhorn 209 and a 209 shotgun primers. To now using smokeless powder and magnum rifle primers. Those are some pretty significant improvements.
Ohio was one of the first states to include crossbows in the regular archery season.
So my question is, if archery equipment is limited to 300 fps, do we go back to smoothbore barrels shooting 1 oz lead slugs, Black powder and patched round balls...?
I feel very fortunate to live in a state that has been open minded about the improvements in hunting equipment. The Ohio Division of Wildlife, in my opinion, does a great job managing the deer heard. They do it by regulating the number of deer that can be taken in a certain zone and County. A few years ago the county I hunt was a four deer county. The past couple years it has been a two deer county and you can only get one buck statewide.