Pennsylvania Game Commission<\/a> is giving hunters one last shot at small game with the release of extra pheasants.<\/p>\nFOX43 hit the field with the PGC in York County for a release and tagged along as hunters made the most of these final days. Hunter Evan Stouffer started his Wednesday early, looking for those pheasants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been out here since about 6:30 this morning, yeah, waiting for the sun to come up, waiting for the truck to pull through,\u201d Stouffer said.<\/p>\n
State Game Warden Cameron Murphy helped organize the release of 130 birds in York County.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea is the crew gets the birds out as quickly as they can,” Murphy said. “Lets them spread out a little bit. Then the hunters can go after them and see if they can find them.\u201d<\/p>\n
With avian flu impacting some commercial farms, the PGC asked suppliers to raise extra pheasants as a precaution, in case of any health issues within the flock.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great thing we have a couple extra birds this year to put out and give people that last opportunity to harvest one before they have to wait until next year,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n
The commission is releasing more than 8,000 birds through Thursday across six regions of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Stouffer, even though this is his first-year hunting, is already counting down to next season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s a lot of fun. Getting outside, having an opportunity like this through the pheasant stocking program. It\u2019s nice to be able to get out once or twice a week,\u201d Stouffer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As hunting season concludes, Pennsylvania hunters seize a final chance for small game, thanks to a special pheasant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-111423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}