Posted November 21, 2016 5:41 pm by Comments

By AmmoLand Editor JE

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USA -(Ammoland.com)- Did you see him sneaking along the fencerow at the edge of the field, before the corn came down?

Or did you see him only on the screen of your neighbor’s smartphone, in a trail-camera photo another neighbor texted him?

Have you not seen him at all, but know by the fresh shavings on the leaves beneath the big cedar that he’s been spending some time in the woodlot back of camp?

In any case, there’s reason to be excited.

Pennsylvania’s 12-day firearms deer season, which opens Nov. 28, is just more than a week away.

With the countdown to kickoff underway, thousands of the state’s hunters are inching closer to bringing home the buck of a lifetime, said Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough.

“The prospect of bagging a trophy buck in Pennsylvania probably has never been better,” Hough said. “More and more of the buck harvest is being made up of mature bucks. In the 2015-16 seasons, an incredible 59 percent of bucks taken by hunters were ages 2½ or older. And many of these deer are absolute wall-hangers that any hunter would be proud to take.”

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