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English: Hunting camp on Schoodic Lake, Maine; from a c. 1905 postcard published by the Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine. (Bangor & Aroostook Railroad series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
RELEASED JANUARY 27, 2015
NO MINIMUM AGE PLACED ON MENTORED YOUTH HUNTERS
All could continue to hunt deer and turkey, but only those 7 and older would be issued harvest tags.
There still is no minimum age to participate in Pennsylvania’s Mentored Youth Hunting Program.
And there is no minimum age for Mentored Youth to hunt deer and turkey.
However, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave preliminary approval to a measure that would require any antlered deer or turkey harvested by a Mentored Youth hunter younger than 7 to be taken with valid harvest tags provided by his or her adult mentor.
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