2018 deer seasons?

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When does your archery opener start?

Ohio starts in about 3 weeks but i will most likely miss it. I was accepted to a local police academy so no hunting for me for 9 months! This will be the first deer season I've missed in 16yrs.

I thought about going out on the one day off i get a week from work and school but its probably not worth it!

Good luck to all who are hitting the woods and make sure you post pictures and stories so i can live through you guys!
 
I missed the very first season Ohio allowed rifle hunting. I had even bought a Rossi M92 in 44 Mag for it but ended up taking a new job and was on the road for that entire season, archery, modern-gun, and muzzle loader.

Tennessee archery (where I do all my hunting now) starts 9/22 but I probably won't hunt much archery. I am more of gun hunter and will probably not get serious until muzzle loader season starting November 3rd. This weekend we are moving stands and clearing shooting lanes. Food plots went in two weeks ago.
 
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I missed the very first season Ohio allowed rifle hunting. I had even bought a Rossi M92 in 44 Mag for it but ended up taking a new job and was on the road for that entire season, archery, modern-gun, and muzzle loader.

Tennessee archery (where I do all my hunting now) starts 9/22 but I probably won't hunt much archery. I am more of gun hunter and will probably not get serious until muzzle loader season starting November 3rd. This weekend we are moving stands and clearing shooting lanes. Food plots went in two weeks ago.
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Bow when the leaves come off and as they start changing is really nice but i live for gun season! I passed a lot of deer with a bow last year and couldn't get anything close enough but Ohio gun week the 45-70 sang 2 times and the ML last day of ML.
 
Oct 1 here but I doubt I'll be hunting a ton. Money is almost nonexistent right now and we are starting a business. Soooooo, it might be a while before I can hunt again unfortunately. We will see though!
 
Our hunting season started on the 16th August. I had a friend down from Norway and the night before the deer season started he shot a 164lb boar. On the first day he shot a yearling roe buck. So now my freezer is topped up and he went back to Norway with a nice pile of meat. I've seen quite a few does with fawns and that quite surprises me after the very hard winter we had. Moose hunting in October and then off to England to hunt fallow and Muntjac with a mate of mine.
 
I shot the Xbow this afternoon. Dead on just like last season. No real reason to practice as with a normal bow since I shoot long guns all the time. It has a red dot sight and I know where to hold for different distances. :D I shot about a dozen bolts and fired a broadhead several times just to check. I have to raise POA a little for the broadhead, but there's an adjuster for that on the scope base.

Anyway, I'm ready. I DO hope it cools a little by the 29th, sweatin' big time out there and with all the rain we've been getting (I ain't griping :D ) the skeeters have hatched. My thermocell is ready, too, though. :D
 
Archery opened today (9/8/18) here in GA. We have a short primitive weapons season that begins on 10/13/18. Rifle season begins 10/20/18 and runs until 01/13/19. Of course you can use archery tackle or muzzle loaders anytime during rifle season. You can kill 2 bucks and 10 does each season.

You can kill your 2 bucks at anytime between today and January 13. But the state is divided up into 7 different zones and does may only be killed during specific days during the season in each zone. In some of them it is pretty simple. Where I live it is buck only until 11/02/18. After that it is either sex until 01/13/19. In other zones the doe days are complicated with just a day or 2 at a time spread out over the season with only 10-15 days out of the season.

This only applies to private property or National Forest lands. We also have dozens of Wildlife Management Areas. Some require you to be drawn to participate, but most just require you to sign in. Any game killed on a WMA doesn't count toward your limit. If you're extremely good, or lucky and hunt lots of WMA's and private property you could legally kill 2-3 dozen deer.

Bear season runs exactly the same as deer season with a 2 per year limit.

There are a few exceptions in heavily populated areas near Atlanta. Some areas are archery only at all times.
 
oct 1 here in southern tier ny. i dont think i will bow hunt this year. i need to make arrows and heads down have the time to practice with the recurve. with we had a early mz season.
 
Supposed to be home for Thanksgiving, probably only chance I'll get to hunt deer this year. I have to buy a tsa legal case, figgured might as well get a big skb or something. So I'll probably take a rifle and maybe my shotgun, or bow.
 
I thought about going out on the one day off i get a week from work and school but its probably not worth it!
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What else are you going to do? As I get older, the more apt I am to avoid doing things, until I ask myself what the alternative is going to be.
 
Archery starts next Monday here and runs through the end of the year. Plenty of days to hunt with a bow in Kansas.
There is the Muzzle loader season that also starts 9/17 and runs through the end of the month. Since it's still hot and buggy and foliage is thick I usually don't bother. Deer numbers have been low in my area so we'll see how it goes..?
 
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What else are you going to do? As I get older, the more apt I am to avoid doing things, until I ask myself what the alternative is going to be.
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I will only have every other Sunday off from both work and the academy so that will be spent catching up on other things.
 
I really like accurate guns, and I am not all that thrilled about pounding my shoulder during target sessions.
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A bad day, no, horrible day hunting beats a great day of yard work or “decluttering” the house, as the wife likes to call it. See gets more stuff and wants me to get rid of stuff we already have.
 
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