Jan 31st close for Zone A is kind of obvious imo. Should have never been extended. Mandating a “break” in the season is just silly.
It’s not really in there to serve as a “break”……It’s the fact that if you’re gonna take 10 days back from Zone A at the end of the season then you need to take 10 days back from Zone B to even things up. You’re not gonna take it from the end of the season during the rut so Dec is the best dates to do it……The same with Zones D & E if you want to end gun season on Jan 16 because of bucks already shedding…………Its just evening out the number of gun and bow days to be the same for everyone. I think as far as total gun days that its basically just taking back the 10 that was added on with the Feb extension plus 4 more which made things work out a little better…..If you wanted to make it exactly the same as it used to be you could add four gun days back to each zone….. I'm pretty sure there was a few gun days added to Nov in there
