OUR HUNTING TRADITION - EXTRA TIME WOULD HELP

Pa. native Harry Shank, his son and grandsons proudly show bucks they harvested in Arnot Pa. 

My son, two grandsons and I are Pennsylvania natives who now live in California and Nevada. We return to our home state every year to go deer hunting.  Arnot, Pa. in Tioga County has been my hunting home for 40 years.

The travel and hunting license expenses are worthwhile to us, but an extra day of hunting when we make the trip each year would certainly be a bonus and extend the annual hunting experience for all of us.

My grandsons have both been through the mentored youth program and have both recently passed the hunter safety course.  It's my hope that they will continue to return to Pennsylvania as adults and pass the family tradition on to their children.  In past years they have both had to miss school days since the deer hunting season didn't open until Monday.  The ability to hunt on the weekend would be extremely advantageous as the west coast schools are not as open to the hunting culture Story by/from Harry Shank