IF this rifle thing goes through.....I'll be sharing my newly acquired land with 3 others instead of 1 other for the biggest majority of the season (and the best part of it). I simply won't go in there with that many slugs flying.....and the adjacent property (where they bed, for the most part) will see hunters from ML on.

It's just not worth it to me to sit in the line of fire to hunt pressured deer for the vast majority of the season. I'll either drop back and hunt the small parcels I've hunted int he past (bow only....and I'm the only one on it)....or I'll look to lease some land....if I can find some close by.

How do they think this is going to do anything other than result in more bucks being taken? We already kill more bucks than does in this state.....and we have a seemingly unrestricted doe harvest at our disposal, now. If they'd go to an EAB situation with ML and rifle (hell Bow, too!) where we had to take 2 does before we could take a buck.....and 1 more before we could take another buck.....I'd be all for the change. If it goes through with no real changes (other than the season for ML and rifle coming in sooner).....I think the harvest numbers on bucks is gonna be off the charts. Every horned deer will have an even bigger target on his back.....because it'll be there, longer.

It differs because I've been bowhunting since 9/13......and ML doesn't come in until 11/15. I've had two full months of bowhunting without having to worry about getting shot in the woods......or having to worry about the deer I'm hunting being pressured into the next county.