my opinion of it is like i said before,,,,,,,,,,,, quit messing so much with it all,,,,,,,,,,,, nobody is gonna be happy,,,,,,,,,,, but all these changes and plans are from "US" as in the florida hunting public as a whole yellin for change,,,,,,,,,
though it could work out a little to extend my season, between areas i hunt between zones 1 and 2,,,,,,,,,,, possibly not have a quota for the begginning of general gun in one wma, but can go hit archery or Ml in the other, and both places about same distance from me
A little off-topic, but along the lines of possible "summer hunting", it seems to me it would come with a whole new bag of tricks to be learned by most hunters. Everything from how to dress and scent control (more sweat, harder to stay neutral), to a shortened span of time between shooting the animal and getting it on ice to avoid spoilage. I'd think that if you shot a deer in mid-August when it's 95° or so, and didn't drop it in it's tracks, that there would be less time to find it before it was no longer worth eating. Even with a quick kill and find, field dressing and getting it on ice would have to be accelerated, and if you have to do that back at the check station, what are the chances of wasting a lot of good venison?
Perhaps I'm underestimating how much time you'd have in such heat, as my experience with hot weather hunting is zip. I think the warmest it's ever been when I had a kill was less than 60°, and I dropped it in its tracks, a cow-horn up near Madison (east of Tallahassee). I threw him on the 4 wheeler and got back to camp 15 minutes after shooting him, and 30 minutes later the hams, shoulders and straps were on ice.
