Just talked to my mom a bit ago. Sixteen hunters and only two bucks down for the first three days of the season. The worst opening weekend in thirty years. Normally they take more deer than there are hunters. Only six inches of snow on the ground, but rainy and sleaty mixed in. She said they've seen more bears than bucks and no does allowed to be taken in the area this year. One guy saw 24 does opening day and not a single buck.
She said it's been a weird year in that almost all of the bucks showing on their trail cameras have been during darkness, even last summer. My dad did take a buck about three weeks ago with his crossbow.
