Saturday we will see how well fluorescent orange accessorizes basic camouflage patterns. The biggest event of the year on Kentucky’s outdoors sporting calendar is the modern firearms season for hunting deer, the gun season. The most impactful day of that season in terms of participation and, typically, deer harvest is the second Saturday of November. That is opening day of the gun season. That is tomorrow. As the time arises, it is remarkable how many trucks there are on the roads that haul four-wheelers on trailers or in the beds. And, yes, the sheer amount of traffic at unholy early hours of a Saturday morning is quite odd. The reality is that almost a third of a million hunters will be slipping out into Kentucky’s pre-dawn darkness with intentions of getting out in front of traveling deer. Along with the residents, a significant number of out-of-state hunters will have traveled here to seek ballistic confrontations with our ungulate critters. All this is astounding when one ponders that it was not too many decades ago that the state did not have a huntable deer population. A relative handful of whitetails survived in a very few places, otherwise there effectively were no deer in Kentucky.  [full article]