moving deer season back a week

[smdave]

Here is the past openers for modern rifle.


Openers modern deer
2003 Oct 11th
2004 Oct 16th
2005 Oct 15th
2006 Oct 14th
2007 Oct 13th
2008 Oct 11th

My bet is the 17th this year.
(It is my wifes birthday she has learned that I am never home on her birthday)

Dave

[bobcat]

  My hunting partners and I already scheduled our vacations for the week of the 10th.  This burns me big time!!!!  Why the Hell cant they post the seasons before the first of January??   


Can anyone confirm this as "set in stone?"

How will this effect the modern elk season?  Will they move that back as well or will they run deer season right through elk season?

Yes it is "set in stone."  Sorry to say but you can't blame the WDFW for this. If you would have called them before you put in for your vacation time, I would bet they would have told you opening of deer is the 17th. The season was not moved back a week as the title of this thread implies. If you read the entire thread you would have seen this post:

Deer season will open on the 17th of October.  Its always the Saturday after the tenth and when the tenth is on the Saturday, it bumps to the next weekend.  

And this:

I think what bone said is true, its always the first saturday after the tenth so this year would be the 17th unless they really change how they've always done things.

[Diehard0123]

I just found it, here it is in black and white:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/seasonsetting/2009-2011_recommendations/232-28-351_ots-2129_3.pdf