An extra flashlight bulb also can be helpful. While hunting in October often offers pleasant days afield, the warm weather also presents challenges for successful deer hunters in assuring harvests result in high-quality venison.
Especially in warm weather, harvested deer should be field dressed quickly, then taken from the field and cooled down as soon as possible. While hanging a deer carcass in a shady area might be fine in cooler temperatures, if the air temperature is above 50 degrees, hunters should refrigerate the carcass as soon as possible.
The prion that causes CWD is concentrated in high-risk deer parts including the head and backbone, and these parts may not be transported outside the DMA. It is legal to remove meat, without the backbone, from a DMA. The skull plate with attached antlers, also may be removed if no visible brain or spinal cord material is present. Successful hunters who intend to do their own processing and who need to transport deer meat or other low-risk parts outside a DMA may stop by one of the many disposal sites established within the DMAs.
Collection bins where hunters can drop off the heads of the deer they harvest to have their deer CWD-tested for free also will be set up at sites within the DMAs. The backbone and other deer parts may be deposited at high-risk parts dumpsters set up in some of the same locations.
An interactive map showing the location of all parts-collection sites is available on the CWD information page at www. Lists of cooperating processors and taxidermists also are available on that page. CWD always is fatal to the deer and elk it infects. As part of the fight against CWD, successful hunters who harvest deer or other cervids anywhere in Maryland, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, or any of the 27 states and Canadian provinces where CWD is known to exist, are prohibited from bringing the high-risk parts of harvested animals into Pennsylvania.
You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. An Official Pennsylvania Government Website. PA Media. Pennsylvania Pressroom. Male and female pheasants may be taken in all WMUs. No limit. Rifles and handguns are restricted statewide, except muzzleloading.
Only 1 spring gobbler may be taken during this hunt. Hunting hours end at noon. Daily limit 1, season limit 2. Second spring gobbler may be only taken by persons who possess a valid special wild turkey license.
From April May 14, legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until noon; from May , legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset. Only 1 bear may be taken during the license year. Armed Services or in the U. Coast Guard only. Also included are persons who have reached or will reach their 65th birthday in the year of the application for a license and hold a valid adult license, or qualify for license and fee exemptions under section Only one elk may be taken during the license year.
One antlerless deer with each required antlerless license. One antlered deer per hunting license year. An antlerless deer with each required antlerless license. Coast Guard only, with required antlerless license. One antlered deer per hunting license year, or one antlerless deer and an additional antlerless deer with each required antlerless license. Outside of any big game season deer, bear, elk and turkey , coyotes may be taken with a hunting license or a furtaker license, and without wearing orange.
The new law also ups trespassing restrictions in Pennsylvania through additional amendments won by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Hunters and trappers will be required to get written permission before hunting on private land on Sundays.
Both trespass law enforcement and penalties will be enhanced. Thanks for visiting PennLive. Quality local journalism has never been more important. We need your support. Not a subscriber yet? Please consider supporting our work. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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