Mid-August on Lowcountry private lands, with bow or gun.


It definitely is interesting how the states differ in season openings. Deer seasons are one example - Georgia, Tennessee or Mississippi opening weeks before Alabama. Dove season is another - opens Labor Day or Sept. 1 or that weekend in several states, but the doves must not cross our state lines until two weeks later.

As for sweating and skeeters and heat, if anyone wants to fight that then so be it IF the biology supports earlier openings. Raccoon season opened Sept. 1 and it was hotter than the back 40 of Hades that night, but we went. Giving hunters the option is IMO better than having a bureaucrat say "Gahh, no one needs to hunt that early in the heat." just because they think it's too hot and wouldn't go themselves.