Pro & Cons any date choice.
Was just thinking back to a time in my childhood when no juvenile hunter felt disenfranchised because we didn't yet have a special juvenile weekend hunt. Also just seemed "normal" to be hunting ducks, doves, squirrels, rabbits, etc. during the first 3 weeks of November, since we had no special muzzleloader season either.
I know deer hunting has not been the primary driver of a decline in juvenile hunting, but it was once much easier, and still is, to take a kid small-game hunting. I continue to believe lifetime hunters are created more by frequent small-game hunting than deer hunting.
And we'd maybe be developing more youth into lifetime hunters if we had less emphasis on deer hunting (at the expense of other types of hunting)? I'm putting this in the context to how much deer hunting opportunities today's youth actually have compared to only a few decades ago, and, the extent to which so much deer hunting emphasis may reduce the opportunities for the same kids to hunt small game.
So count me neutral as to any particular date for a special juvenile hunt.
If anything, just do away with the post-season juvenile deer hunt.