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Old 09-21-2009, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jimbodwb
The article says:
-open the 23-day regular firearms season on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
-open the early archery season on October 1st, ending on the Friday prior to the beginning of the regular firearms season.


This looks to me as if we would not lose that week of bowhunting. It says ending on the Friday prior to the regular firearms season. If the firearms season opens on Saturday then the bow season should end the day before. At least thats how I read it. I am more concerned with the youth hunt 1 weekend before the gun season. I agree that greedy adults will use this as a chance to just hunt earlier and tow their kids along for show. The youth hunt should be in early to mid October, or even in mid to late September.
Yeah the wording is kinda vague as to when bow seqason would actually close. Even if its still open that week, if the woods are goin to be open to hunters with any inline muzzleloader the last week is lost imo. They mite as well just say gun season is opening a week earlier bcuz i fear alot will look at it as bein just that.
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