Help a person in need with your unwanted venison. The Hunters Sharing the Harvest Program is Pennsylvania’s venison donation program and has been helping hungry people in our area for 19 years. HSH has distributed 1.5 million pounds of donated venison since 1991. HOW TO DONATE: According to the HSH website, hunters can drop off […]

John Hayes Pittsburgh Post-Gazette No one is born with the skills necessary to drop a deer. Hunters have special skills that enable them to help put food on the tables of families in need. Hunters Sharing the Harvest makes the donation easy. Step 1: Shoot a deer. Step 2: Legally tag the animal. Thoroughly field […]

QDMA/NDA is partnering with Michigan State University and Cornell University on an important chronic wasting disease (CWD) research project, and your participation is valuable, regardless of whether you hunt in or near a CWD zone or state. We are asking you to please complete a survey to tell us a little more about your behavior […]

By Howard Whiteman I was doing my best to stay awake when I heard the noisy chatter of a flock of turkeys making their way in front of my stand. As I admired the handsome birds and the cacophony of calls, I realized they were not alone. Four does were following them, marching silently through […]

Pennsylvania’s statewide archery deer season begins Saturday, Oct. 3, and its return is prompting the Pennsylvania Game Commission to issue some helpful reminders. Archers statewide can hunt for antlered or antlerless deer from Oct. 3 to Nov. 14; Sunday, Nov. 15; and from Nov. 16-20, and during the late archery deer season, which runs from […]

Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas, DMAP units, CWD collection bins identified. The deer hunters who most consistently fill tags year to year know their woods. They know what food sources are available and where they are, they know the location of whitetail bedding areas, they know the travel routes deer use to go from one […]