if where you are hunting wont be getting any pressure while you cant hunt i would say the second weekend if there will be others hunting there i might hunt the 1st weekend. i would also check the weather.
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Normally I'd choose the latter, but this season there seems to be a lot of chatter about early buck activity, ie scrapes rubs and such, so I may choose the early date this year.