Through Friday, Dec. 18, the game commission is accepting photos of bucks taken during the 2016 firearms and archery deer seasons.
The Buck Harvest Photo Contest is free to enter.
Photos should be emailed to pgc-contest@pa.gov.
Game Commission staff will narrow the submitted photos to a group a contenders to be posted on the agency’s Facebook page, where users will determine the winning photos by “liking” the images. Those submitting the images of the winning archery and firearms bucks will win trail cameras.
All submissions must include the first and last name of the hunter and other people in the photo, the hunter’s hometown, and the county where the deer was harvested. Submissions also must indicate whether the deer was harvested with a bow or a rifle.
The game commission has the right to use all submitted images.
For more information about the contest, people may visit the Game Commission’s website.
Antlerless deer seasons to kick off
Pennsylvania is gearing up for its “second opening day” of the firearms deer season.
In most parts of the state, Saturday marks the beginning of antlerless deer hunting during the firearms deer season. That means, statewide from Dec. 3 through the season’s closing day on Saturday, Dec. 10, properly licensed hunters may take either an antlered or antlerless deer.
