The first Monday after Thanksgiving for decades was treated as an unofficial holiday in Pennsylvania, as hunters took to the fields and woods for the first day of deer rifle season. Schools would ...

2 during the opening day of the weeklong gun hunting season ... the Monday after Thanksgiving. From 2021 to 2023, hunters checked an average of 19,439 deer during the gun season opener.

Legislation that would allow the Pennsylvania Game Commission to include more Sundays for hunting took one step ... changing the first day of rifle deer season were voted down.

Several new Pennsylvania hunting and fishing related bills, including a change to antler point restrictions for senior hunters and moving the first day of rifle deer season, are under review by ...