In the past you generally had the first week in November as archery(1-7), 2nd week muzzleloader(8-14), 3rd week back to archery then gun season opened around 20th(give or take a day or two).
This year archery runs from November 2-6 then muzzleloader goes from 7-20 and gun season open on the 21st.
Muzzleloaders these days are for all intense purposes just as effective as guns, especially in middle Tn where your average shot is probably under a hundred yards. It was nice having a buffer week of archery before gun season opened up. You had less people and noise in the woods that week. Now you are going to be hearing gunshots from the 7th on.
I bet that when the stats come out after the season that opening weekend harvest numbers are going to be way down.
Anybody else have any thought on this?