OK guys, I'm having a hard time understanding this argument. The proposal was to shorten Indiana's 16 day firearms season to 9 days, plus add a 2 day antlerless season in October and an 8 day antlerless season in December. So it's actually increasing the days you can gun hunt from 16 to 19. Meat hunters have more days to fill their freezers and trophy hunters have less days to tag a buck. Plus, it adds 8 days of hunting when kids are out of school for Christmas break-isn't one of our biggest goals recruiting young hunters? I don't know why people are saying this is the bowhunting lobby, I doubt bowhunters want to compete with gunhunters in October. And I don't know how you can say this is the "trophy hunter lobby", as it shortens the time you can buck hunt. So what am I missing?
The biggest deal was that the season was moved back a week putting the firearm season basically out of the rut. The Bow hunting thing comes in that the archery season would get most of the rut. The peak of the rut hits real close to the 10 th of November. That was the major issue for most plus the weather can start to be a factor in December.