Seasonal & Holidays
PA Changes The Start Of Deer Hunting Season
Find out here when this year's deer hunting season will begin.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has scrapped a six-decade tradition and has moved the opening day of deer rifle season from the Monday after Thanksgiving to the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The move is effective in November.
The commission voted 5-3 to make the change Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The move expands deer season, the state's most popular hunting season, to 13 days and now includes three Saturdays.
When the game commission first proposed the change in January, it said the move was an attempt to stay current with changing hunting demographics and would create more opportunities for hunters.
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Rifle season for deer hunting has begun in Pennsylvania on the Monday after Thanksgiving since 1963.
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