Muzzleloader Hunters act now!

[pianoman9701]

Wouldn't you all agree though starting during and week day other then and Friday is dumb.  I was looking at early archery the last 3 years and it started on the first all 3 years but no worries I am usually wrong  .  So let take the date and day of what I said and throw it away.  Lets start our seasons on a Saturday or a Friday.  I picked Saturday because it gives you that nice round number of 16 days.  To me it looks pretty logical season starts the first Friday or Saturday of the month.

If you start the 1st Friday or Saturday, that will conflict with Labor Day for 3 seasons out of every 7. They start it after Labor Day specifically because the woods are so full of people for that weekend that many hunters would lose opportunity for camp sites. Then, if they started it the Second Saturday, that would really cut into ML season when the start is as late as the 11-13th.

[Russ McDonald]

Wouldn't you all agree though starting during and week day other then and Friday is dumb.  I was looking at early archery the last 3 years and it started on the first all 3 years but no worries I am usually wrong  .  So let take the date and day of what I said and throw it away.  Lets start our seasons on a Saturday or a Friday.  I picked Saturday because it gives you that nice round number of 16 days.  To me it looks pretty logical season starts the first Friday or Saturday of the month.

If you start the 1st Friday or Saturday, that will conflict with Labor Day for 3 seasons out of every 7. They start it after Labor Day specifically because the woods are so full of people for that weekend that many hunters would lose opportunity for camp sites. Then, if they started it the Second Saturday, that would really cut into ML season when the start is as late as the 11-13th.

Sorry forgot about labor day but hey there is a couple holidays around the hunting seasons but your correct Labor Day is a busy time in the woods.  So there is not conflict in starting it at all the second Saturday of the month.  Your just shifting each season to the second Saturday of the month.  Still 16 days long and maybe cut the late season archery/ml season down to 15 days.  That would be the only one to use dates.  Start the 1st of December and end the 15.  Starting on a Saturday and staying with the 16 days long season it gives you 3 full weekends to hunt.  Now if you started on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or a Thursday and stay with 16 day long season you won't get that full 3 weekends to hunt.