Pennsylvania has always gone the conservative way, instead of more choices like other states.
There is one good reason. It use to be some 1 million; now it's some 750,000 hunters. PA game officials can affect a change in the total population, by increasing the chance of harvesting a deer. With 750,000 hunters, a change could mean an increase harvest of say 100,000 deer, without hardly batting an eye.
Too many hunters mean too much chance of effect on the total deer.
Some states were quicker to Sunday hunting, crossbows in archery season, all kinds of muzzleloaders in the primitive hunting season, weeks of archery and gun hunting. All things a hunter might want.
Except in Georgia, where all the foregoing happens, there are only about 250,000 deer hunters stateside. And that makes all the difference in the world, in how the deer population is regulated.
If the deer population is down, the tightening of the opportunity screws will happen in PA. And the faster, the better.
