My best opening day had in alot of yrs. I saw 18 deer Sat., thats alot considering the last 3 yrs I've seen a total of 1 deer in our woods on the opener. I passed on several small doe/fawns.Couldn't get a shot at couple nice doe I saw. 2nd day today I only seen 1 deer, but the rest guys saw several, and they saw some bucks running doe around woods. We hadn't seen any of that all bow season. The best news is my son 16yrs old, 1st yr out during reg. season. He's been archery hunting with me since turned 14. He shot his first ever deer, a nice adult doe. I was really happy, and one proud father.
Overall shooting was definitly down. We have state land on our borders, and we also hunt the state lands. I saw only 2 other hunters besides our group in state woods. I was surprised wasn't more hunters out with the cool temps, and little bit of snow.