One way to understand hunting seasons (at least here), is that there's the legitimate season for 3 months called archery season and the illegitimate seasons, called the gun seasons. The legitimate season involves a true love of the animal. It coincides with a TV show with the wife, a DNR ass sniff to forego any regulatory violations and a seasonal goatee.
The longest illegitimate season is three weeks in late december/january. That's about as long as anyone can be trusted with a firearm...and they cant even be shotguns then.
