With an expanded hunting season in Pennsylvania, processors are strained by increased demand.
The rush begins in September for Tim Giger and other processing shops with the start of archery season.
“And there’s no brake, I have Sunday hunting and you just don’t get a break. Yesterday we started at about 9:30 a.m. and worked until 8:00 p.m.”
While the demand for processors grows, shops continue to close their doors. Giger tells the Big K Morning Show his team in Valencia received over 130 deer on Saturday alone, but it's been busy season for two months.
“The Game Commission said that the industry will adjust and there’s been about four people who have quit since they’ve started this concurrency,” explains Giger.
The PA Game Commission in recent years has also approved concurrent hunting, which means hunters can kill antlered and antlerless deer in the same season, meaning more and more deer at play.
The Game commission says hunters this year will find deer to be in good supply. They expect 600,000 hunters to participated this year.
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