I applied for and received my CCP due to a deputy game warden telling me that I should absolutely be carrying a pistol on the public game lands that I hunted. I was hunting during deer archery most of the time and I would be leaving the woods with no one in sight. He explained that they had found a number illegal plants growing in the woods and fields and that the guys doing it were not amateurs. He also asked me to park in the parking lots of the game lands since he explained that they had found a number of people who were in cars parked along the side of the road dead from being shot.
Unfortunately, in PA you hear a lot of stories on the news about people being found on PA game lands dead and it's usually never due to natural causes.
