First Monday in Aug. of 2003, was Aug. 4 (WMUs started). First Monday in August of 2004, was Aug. 2. First Monday last year was Aug. 8. This year it was Aug. 7. All were the first day for an antlerless application to be accepted.
Um, last time I checked, there were 7 days in a week. So if the 8th was a Monday, then the 1st would have been a Monday as well.
2005 licenses went on sale Monday August 1
As for the NR's, a little bit of time will tell. I know when I used to have to drive an hour to get a WV license, I tended to put it off till the last minute.
I would not be surprised if NR sales are off a little bit more than resident sales but it wont be the apocolypse that DD implies. I'dbet thatHR is having some additional negative effect on NR sales simply because the Northern WMU's where the deer densities are a bit down have traditionally been popular with NR's (at least in the two I've hunted over the years.) We used to get tons of Ohio hunters in the ANF area. If Ilived in Ohio these days , I'd be looking west and not east if I wanted to hunt outside my state. Not because of quantity but because of quality.