It's defintely going to change my favorite time of year. I can see it now, buying their xbows al walmart on friday night, go sit for the first hr of daylight saturday and then start driving through every piece of woods imaginable and trying to fling some arrows at running deer. Then i'm sure the blaze orange will come in, and so on.
xbows are really a pain in the butt and do not shoot as accuracte as a compound, and are hard to hold b/c they thump so bad. Heck you have to even use 3 pins out to 30 yards b/c they drop so much. But like all you other PA guys know, try telling that to some of these guys who think their shooting a gun and will be pulling the trigger out passed 100 yds.
Do I think this will have an effect on harvest numbers, not really b/c the deer are going to get wacked out of any type of natural movements by these gun hunters turned bow hunters and go nocturnal all year long. It's basically going to have the rifle season feel during an archery season. I can't imagine the amounts of conflicts that will be created now as well with people stomping through the woods.