Like many of our historic holidays, seasons are moved around to fit weekends, holidays, etc. Historically, Idaho used to open deer season on Oct 5. Did not make any difference what day of the week that might be. I liked that as I could do my vacation days whenever. Especially liked the Monday openers as one had 4 or 5 days out before he saw another hunter. Now they move around the weekend schedules.
The eastern state's Sunday deal likely hurts whatever non-resident funds they collect. One shows up and has to take a day off in the middle of the season. Just hanging on to the Puritan ways I guess.
