Pressure from hunting groups probably forced some of those changes as extended hours rarely increases the number of hunters according to research done in Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi 4 years ago. However there is a direct correlation to 'poaching' Roost shooting, and other unethical practices when the shooting time is pushed anywhere close to the roosting time. Sometimes we just shoot ourselves in the foot when we pressure law makers and policy setters to do something about which they know very little.