I would imagine days 3-16 of the firearms season being up by roughly 8,500 deer (as compared to last season) were likely hunters trying to make up for the lost opener. But nothing is like the opener. That one day normally accounts for 33% of the total deer killed in the entire firearms season. Cut it by 19,000 deer (as compared to last season) and that drops that 33% of total firearms season harvest to about 10%.

And you can't make all of that up, it's just not going to happen.