Well fellers, the opportunity is there for you, take it or leave it, but there’s nothing unfair or preferential about it since you can play if you want to. I buy extra bow tags and antlerless tags so I can hunt deer here anytime from the opening of bow season until December 31 with whatever implement is legal, and then for a few more days in January. Been thinking about getting another compound as well for a little variety, probably in a lighter weight to accommodate my old bones.
Dube, the rut runs here into our rifle season, but the presence of a lot of hunters on public land means that the activity goes on at night. When I hunted private land during the rifle season West of here, the bucks ran with the does, not constantly for their lives. My son and his son hunt a small farm in VA a few miles from here, and the chase continues there in daylight until about the end of November. Now it’s all about food.
