Posted on Mon, Nov. 30, 2009
PITTSBURGH - Pennsylvania's two-week rifle deer season is under way, and an estimated 750,000 hunters are expected to take to woods and fields in search of deer. The season runs through Dec. 12.
Between 80,000 and 90,000 deer are expected to be killed on Monday's opening day, which is nearly one-third of the 300,000 deer that the Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates will be shot during the season.
The Game Commission says hunters harvested an estimated 335,850 deer in the state's 2008-09 seasons.
The Game Commission reported Monday afternoon that four people were wounded in three accidents on the first day, but none of the injuries was life threatening. An accident in Indiana County wounded a 10-year-old girl and her father. Two other men were injured Monday in Westmoreland and Lackawanna counties.
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