- Published:Nov. 29, 2022, 11:05 a.m.
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Now that Pennsylvania’s statewide firearm deer hunting season began on Saturday, Nov. 26, drivers need to be especially cautious as hunters will be pushing deer through the woods and across busy highways and panicked wounded deer will be running into the roads. In addition, when a matriarch doe is killed, whose job it is to safely cross her family, her orphans will run into the roads without caution.
Studies show that hunting actually increases car-deer collisions. According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, most car-deer collisions happen during hunting season. Pennsylvania’s second largest insurance company (the nation’s 12th largest insurer) — Erie Insurance — collected data that showed a five-fold increase in car-deer collisions on the first day of hunting, and that car-deer collisions remain high throughout hunting season.
This fact raises the issue…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I was out yesterday, and we drove past a place where we like to go to hike occasionally – two pickup truck full of hunters with long rifles got out, about ten? Maybe more? I felt awful for the poor animal or bird they would converge on, and I hope people weren’t innocently walking out there!