Sorry guys, but I'm at a loss to understand how putting a gun season in part of october is gonna "ruin" bow season. My dad and his hunting partner are bow hunting fanatics and generally go after big bucks. They have taken quite a few over the years and i don't recall all or even most of those bucksbeing taken during one week in October. Some are taken the firsthour of bow season, some are taken literally at the last minute of bow season. Hell, they have taken plenty of deer almost immediately after one or both of the guns seasons.If it would make folks happy, then I would be all for an extended "shoot does with whatever you want" season for the first two weeks of January. But sorry, i just don't buy the whole "ruin" scenario.

And yes, I am from Illinois and own land in Richland and Wayne counties and just spent the last 5 days over therecruising around looking at crop damage on surrounding tracts of land. The deer numbers in that area need to be cut down and the folks out in the country that actually have to live with the problems caused by too many deerdon't really care how or when it gets done.