SLATINGTON, Pa. – On Saturday, a tradition is renewed.<\/p>\n
Outdoorsmen and women will head back into the woods for the start of the 2025 deer hunting firearms season.<\/p>\n
The showroom at AF Boyer Hardware and Guns in Slatington is packed just one day before the season begins.<\/p>\n
Fifth-generation owner Abel Boyer says it\u2019s one of his busiest days yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe opened the doors at 8 o\u2019clock this morning, and they came rushing in looking for the deals. We\u2019ve got a lot of deals — we\u2019ve got ammo, we\u2019ve got guns on sale,\u201d Boyer said.<\/p>\n
Michaela Lindtner and her husband, Kris, are searching for value to keep their expanding family on budget. Their daughter is six months old.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely, you\u2019ve got to keep the meat on the table. It\u2019s so expensive nowadays, beef in the grocery store and whatnot. So we just try to eat deer all year long,\u201d Kris Lindtner said.<\/p>\n
With Pennsylvania recently expanding deer hunting season to include Sundays, some hunters believe it\u2019s a move that was long overdue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s a good idea,\u201d said Danny Grob of Schnecksville. \u201cAfter all, it gets people out into the woods. They pay for their tickets, their licenses. They put money into conservation, so I think it\u2019s a good thing to have another day to hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kris Lindtner agrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cPennsylvania was so far behind. All the other states allow Sunday hunting, so why not allow us?\u201d Lindtner said.<\/p>\n
The regular firearms season includes both Sundays, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7, and runs through Dec. 13.<\/p>\n
Last year, nearly 284,000 pounds of venison were donated through Hunters Sharing the Harvest. The food was then distributed to food banks across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SLATINGTON, Pa. – On Saturday, a tradition is renewed. Outdoorsmen and women will head back into the woods…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,27750],"class_list":{"0":"post-47294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-northern-lehigh-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294","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=47294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}