I was thinking the same thing while sitting in my stand the last afternoon of bowseason (gun opened the next day). Listening to crack after crack from guns being sighted the last hour of daylight before the opener! Then you hear a 4 wheeler zipping by on the neighboring property. Next you hear some hammering echo through the woods as people are doing last minute repairs on treestands. It felt and sounded like a community getting ready for a war or natural disaster was heading our way. So I sat there and had the same feelings you had. This just aint' right. Definitely like night and day IMO.