ORIGINAL: GMMAT
The proposal on the table for '09 is to have only a FOUR WEEK "bow only" season...followed by ML for 2 weeks.....and then to open rifle season until the season is over.
That's exactly how it is in VA where I hunt. Oct is bow...m/l came in on Nov 1st....now guns will bang till early January.
In WV they don't have the early m/l season yet, I suspect it may come some day. We usually get about 5-6 weeks of bow there...archery comes in later there - mid Oct[&:]
You'll make do...and the deer will too, they adapt for sure....but I notice them being ALOT more on edge once the guns get crackin.