I attended the meeting in Vancouver on the 30th of January and the concensious of the group there was pretty evenly split between the tuesday after labor day and the October 1 opener.

Department spokesman said the Sept 8 to 21 season would not happen in Washington because they were not going to allow hunting during the peak of the rut. This is the same season dates that the 3 major archery organizations suggested 6 years ago when WDFW changed the seasons to Sept 1 the groups wanted the season to open earlier and they got it just not what they wanted.

Its is my belief that the only real reason they are considering moving the opener date now is because of complaints from the non hunting public about conflict of users (bunny huggers vs hunters) on the labor day weekend. But no one from WDFW will admit this.

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