RE: 24 hours SOURTHERN NY!!!
Last years opener was miserable for both bow and gun.
However both of those days, the activiy I saw was the most all season.
I got busted on the bow opener by a doe I did not see while watching 13 deer with one large 8 pointer in the field. He was certainly tending to them like shepard to sheep.
If I werent going to be out of town, there is no doubt I'd be out there, unless I cannot stay in the stand safely, which I would just go to a ground blind anyways.