Originally posted by blackoak:
Shortening firearms season or moving it to a later date will not affect the total harvest numbers. Lowering bag limits will. Opening weekend of firearms season is the deadliest two days there is for being a deer. Many "hunters" will never step foot in the woods again until opening weekend next season.
I can see your point *IF* firearm season was only shortened by a couple of days. But I did say "significantly shortened". Ohio has 7 days of general firearm, 2 days of late firearm and 4 days of very late ML. A total of 13 days compared to Indiana's 39 days (at minimum). I cannot envision killing the same number of deer in 1/3rd or less of the days afield.
