Here's a small rant for my fellow southern zone bowhunters. Season comes in on Sunday, the 25th. So we really just get two weekends before youth gun season. Then the fireworks really begin the weekend after that.
I personally don't hunt Sunday's, but no problem if you do. That's not my point. I just think the amount of time before gun season is really short, especially when opening day falls on a Sunday. I like the early season when we get a good front.
And I like the February days, even as a bow only hunter, cause the bucks were getting cranked up where I hunt last year about that time.
Nighthunter - get creative - help us out!
He won't. He just thinks we are cry babies that can't hunt. I'm betting he bases his judgment of gestation on too broad of an area to get a good grasp of our specific area.
You know, you've got two guys on here that really listen to you folks and go to bat for you. Patronizing them doesn't help. And we shot hundreds of deer in the southern zone on dozens and dozens of locations. If it were my districts I could tell you how many deer and how many sites but I don't shoot D-4 or D-5 and rarely in D-3.
To the question. There have been options brought up by some biologists/committees but to be honest it doesn't look promising for the near future.
Some of us hope to revisit having smaller zones in the future but that is a wait and see thing. We have to have enough data to back it up and currently we just don't have enough to make a strong case. That and hunters are not vocal enough about wanting something done about it. If hunters aren't vocal we don't have problems... That kind of thing.
