Hunters often don’t realize the role they play in wildlife research and game management. The Pennsylvania Game Commission conducts extensive research on the deer harvest without contacting hunters directly. Instead, they visit local game butcher shops to inspect and evaluate the health of the deer herd by aging animals and taking samples for further study, reports ABC News.
The first day of rifle deer season may be the biggest unofficial holiday in Pennsylvania. Many schools are closed and lots of people take off work for it. More than 750,000 hunters will head into state game lands over the two week season. 15-year-old Hunter Malloy lived up to his name, nabbing his tenth deer.
“We just climbed up the tree and we were sitting there. There were some deer as soon as we got there. And the same group of deer was just circling around, again and again, picking up more deer as they went by. Then they went away. Then the buck came out,” he said… [continued]
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