Why... because it IS to long ... Indiana could have one heck of a deer herd, if they had decent management ... there is no reason to have over 30 days of some kind of gun/firearms.... Illinois has a much better system with their firearms and they still manage the herd numbers to within both social and biological carrying capacity .. . the best thing Indiana ever did was go to our One Buck rule... the worst thing is the darn Dec. kill all the Does season .... two great things Indiana needs to do... one, stop the Dec. antlerless season(or drastically reduce the numbers of counties at least) and two, shorten gun and move it back to Thanksgiving.... IMO