Jeff Mulhollem

Driving home from a great nephew’s birthday party recently – deep in thought, pondering what I might write this column about – a big doe burst from brush alongside a highway near my home and bounded across the road 10 yards in front of me.
I instinctively braked, but I was going too fast to avoid hitting the buck I believed was chasing her. Fortunately, he never materialized. Still, it was a close call, and I thought about what a hassle it is to hit an adult deer these days, and what that doe would have done to the sensors and awesome electronic safety system I value so much in my kinda new van.

As this legislative session comes to an end in Harrisburg with two final days for voting by the Senate Nov. 13-14, there is some important unfinished business for outdoor sportsmen. But at this writing, there is no way to know whether lawmakers will complete it. First, there is Senate Bill 67, that would lift the ban on Sunday hunting and allow the Game Commission to schedule as many Sundays for hunting as the agency wants.