Opening day doesn' t mean too much to me, for that matter the whole first month of the season doesn' t. I get out there mind you but it never is an all day thing that early, mostly a couple hrs in the morning and then some scouting. Opening day here was the 15th, didn' t make it, then the hurrican came but was able to make it out Sat. What a mess the woods was, trees down everywhere and the creek flooded big time depositing debree everywhere changing the deer patteren. Season is much too long to worry about opening day, now the last 2 weeks of Oct is when I start to get serious.