West of the Blue Ridge the early season is Nov.4-17. There's no late season as it would coincide with the general firearms season. On private land in Clarke County, where I hunt, it's either sex. Public land has a complicated web of regs that give me a headache and since I don't plan to hunt deer there, matters not.
That big one, so far as I know, wasn't taken last season, so might still be around. My plan this year is to shoot does for meat and shoot a nice buck or none at all. Assuming we get to keep hunting that property in the future, I think that will pay off in time.
