There's an awful lot of empty or dying camps in Pennsylvania. So many divided families, kids that just don't get shown the ways of their forefathers, and even QDM. Licenses aren't cheap either. I well remember the days when deer season was basically an undeclared state holiday. Every little mountain town was bustling on the weekend before the opener, the volunteer fire departments did a hunter's meal as a fund raiser, including the obligatory raffle for a Winchester or Marlin lever gun. Now, outside of some orange hats here and there, you'd be hard pressed to tell the opener is happening. 7 camps on our trail, and only three of them are occupied for the opener. There's an old church nearby that was converted to a deer camp decades ago. They used to get about 20 guys in for the opener. I drove by there last fall and there were two trucks there.
