Pennsylvania’s woods have been full of tens of thousands of hunters this week. The state’s firearms deer season kicked off on Saturday and runs through Dec. 10 with the exception of this Saturday, Dec. 4. According to the National Deer Association, between 2011 and 2020, Pennsylvania ranked second in the nation three times for buck […]

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) — Deer hunting season has officially begun in Pennsylvania, with many schools being closed on Monday, Pennsylvania hunters and their families could go out. In addition to hunting for meat, many do it for the sport, often saving the antlers or heads of their most prized shots.   READ MORE

HARRISBURG — Hunters are being encouraged to share their harvest in rough economic times. With a groaning economy, many families are facing food insecurity across Pennsylvania. Since 1991, a program has been enabling hunters to donate a portion — or all — of their harvest. Hunters Sharing Harvest (HSH) is gearing up for another year. […]

Adam Smeltz Pittsburgh Post-Gazette November 28, 2022 When Doug Peffer opened his big-game butcher shop, deer hunters around the intersection of Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties could pick from perhaps a dozen full-service processors to carve their harvest. About 45 years later, Mr. Peffer’s outfit near Ellwood City stands among fewer than half that many across […]

Deer hunters in Pennsylvania have donated their harvest for three decades, providing millions of servings of food to Pennsylvania families in need. Hunters Sharing the Harvest, created in 1991, is a venison donation program run by the Department of Agriculture and Pennsylvania Game Commission. In total, more than 2 million pounds of venison have been […]

Since the early 1970s, the medical community has cautioned hunters that fragments from lead bullets are spread through wild meat, and more recently the alerts were upgraded to an unofficial consumption advisory: There is no safe level of lead consumption in hunter-killed meat.   READ MORE