Got one more thought to throw out there and then I’m finished……
Let’s say we did start moving the starting date to March 10 and then maybe even farther back to the first Saturday and possibly to March 1… etc…..Jackson Co would be your canary in the coal mine to watch for when “starting too early” begins to impact population density... IF….IF….it ever does negatively impact it……It’s not gonna have a detrimental effect evenly across the whole state though …..As you move the starting date back more and more….”too early” would progress from the northeast corner of the state to the southwest in the exact opposite trend we see this later start causing with kill trends….again…..IF….it ever does cause a negative impact to the population…..
This is aldeer, so I see no problem with discussing things that are never gonna happen, but any casual reader should understand that it's never gonna happen. The literary term for this discussion is "adynaton." Paul used it in Galatians when he mentioned the possibility of an angel from heaven coming down and preaching a different gospel from the one that he preached. It wasn't gonna happen, and neither will anyone reading this ever see a March 1 turkey opener in AL.
That ship has long since sailed and whatever changes are made from here on out will be in the other direction, towards later openers. April 1st is what was originally presented for this season; it was the work of a few guys on the CAB to keep it in March at all. Once they finish their terms, there won't be any barriers to making it be April.
