This is not a real big deal but it's always irritated me that the late muzzleloader season for blacktail deer would open on Thanksgiving, while late muzzleloader elk, late archery elk, and late archery blacktail would open the day before Thanksgiving. I never could understand why it was that way, and I even wrote to the WDFW a few times complaining about it and asking why it was like that.
Never did get an answer to that question, but I see now they have got it right. The 2015 proposal has archery and muzzleloader, deer and elk, all beginning on November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving. It never happened to me but I always figured someday I'd be hunting elk on that first day of late muzzleloader season, and stumble into a monster 4 point blacktail buck at 25 yards and couldn't shoot it because the deer season didn't open until tomorrow!
Edit: I just went back and looked at the some of the older regulations and actually 2009 was when they first screwed up the late muzzleloader deer season. Up until then blacktail deer and elk started on the same day. I really think it was just a typo beginning in 2009 and it took them six years to finally fix it. (even though I told them about it three or four years ago)
