I fully disagree with the early bow season opener we have now. The deer here in North Alabama still rely on momma to survive and many does are shot and the fawns are left on their own. I would be all for moving bow season forward to November 1.
I agree about the fawns but bow season is not really even significant from a numbers standpoint…….We only kill about 5,000-6,000 does across the whole state during bow season….That’s like 75 does per county…..I think the Oct 25 delay is probably sufficient to address that situation…..If we really want to protect fawn numbers then we need to be more concerned about the other 90,000 does that get killed during the rest of the season.
