Sorry, it took me a few days to respond but work keeps me very busy during the week. I will try and keep this short but informative. When I posted on your page I was actually enjoying a great morning archery hunting with my wife, whom I got into hunting about four years ago. Because of our busy schedules, we don’t get a lot of quiet time together. During the week she doesn’t get off work at 6 pm and has an hour commute. She gets home just after 7 pm, by the time we shower and have our dinner we are laying our heads down to start the next day over again.
Come Saturday’s in the fall we are sitting next to one another in a tree stand hoping one of us gets a shot but never upset if we don’t. It’s just nice to spend time together in the woods. As many people know Pennsylvania weather is often unpredictable in the fall. So many times over the last year we have lost one or both of the hunts we are able to enjoy together during the one day [Saturday] we have an opportunity to hunt. I have found it extremely difficult to get a deer in range for my wife on one of the seven days we get to hunt together during the season. She was actually becoming somewhat discouraged until last year when she was able to harvest her first deer.
My wife isn’t a gun nut so she only hunts archery. It’s disappointing to us both that we only got to spend one day a week in 2018 in the woods together hunting. In a country where we are supposed to be so free, we are having opportunities held back by people, many of them that don’t even hunt or understand it.
Most of our hunting takes place at our cabin that is two hours away. To think we drive two hours every weekend to only get two hunts is very upsetting. How can we expect to get more kids and more people in general interested in hunting when our legislators are holding back opportunities. I hope this helps although I have all but given up hope for Sunday hunting in my lifetime.
Derek
A disgruntled sportsmen
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