After the first day ofgetting shot at, many bucks go nocturnal and are gonna stay bedded down rather than be out chasing does during the rut??? Uh, okay. However, based on that that assumption, then both bow and regular firearm rut season hunting should be hurt/ruined by the mid-october youth firearm hunts, and the second firearm season and late bow seasons should betotal busts in terms of taking bucks, since they don't even have the lure of the rut to have them out during legal shooting hours. Spotnstalk's anecdote is kind of helpful in terms of refuting the latter scenario, as are the several big racks that my father and his hunting partner took last year in December with both bow and shotgun.

I'm not gonna argue this any more fellas,since folks seem to betoning downthe "ruin" philosophy.Would be much more productive to discuss how to improve access to land, sinceall thesupplemental hunting seasons in the world ain't gonna help a whole lot if people can't get to the deer.