Our deer season for rifle starts the second week in August and goes through the 20th of Sept. I have been hunting the same piece of national forest (open to the public) for 41 years in a row!! Same straight up and down, fly infested, overgrown with poison oak and brush, hotter than all get-out, by myself and wouldn't have it any other way. It's no wonder that I have the same nasty old canyon to myself year after year, nobody else is that into that kind of self inflicted torture :>)- I do kill my two bucks every year!! I go to Colorado in Oct. elk hunting with the same guys every year in Montrose, 10,500 ft, so getting my mountian legs ready in Cali every year really helps, hunting is the only real exercise I really get. I haven't killed a buck this year yet, I haven't even seen one yet!! Only two weeks left!!
