(File Photo of a deer)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pennsylvania) Over the weekend, deer season for 2024-2025 began for hunters here in Pennsylvania. According to a statement from the Pennsylvania Game Commission, there are two separate periods for the whole season, as the first lasted through this weekend, while the second goes through December 2nd, and lasting every day except for December 8th until December 14th. The statement also confirmed that over a quarter of a million deer were taken the previous year, with bucks totaling just over eighty-six thousand with the remaining deer not having antlers.