Seventeen-Minute Buck

With archery deer season winding down, many bowhunters and crossbow hunters are still in the woods, hoping to add some venison to their winter larder. With the rut near or at its prime, mature bucks are roaming around during daylight hours and in places that they do not frequent during the rest of the year.

With us turkey hunters out of the woods and nearly no one hunting small game, at least in our wildlife management unit, archery hunters should not have other hunters interfering with their hunts, which is an obvious strategy of the PGC's hunting policies. Bowhunters and crossbow hunters...