The Pennsylvania Game Commission has changed the starting day of buck season from the first Monday after Thanksgiving to the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.
As a new hunter, I agree with this change. I go to school, and this change will allow me to start hunting on a weekend.
It seems most of the people who disagree with the change are camp hunters. In a news article, I read about one man who said he enjoyed relaxing at camp over the weekend and then going hunting during the week. He said those days were a good time to start recruiting younger people into hunting.
Other people support the change. I read about a man who said that when the Monday opener first came out, people who had been hunting before adapted to the change, and he thinks future hunters will be just as adaptable.
I think the main reason people are angry about this decision is because they don’t like change. When I was younger, I hated it when my family got rid of old furniture that was in bad shape to get better stuff because I didn’t like change.
I support the change and think that people will eventually adapt.
Zachary Posner
Penn Township, Westmoreland County
The writer is a member of Boy Scout Troop 239. He wrote this as a requirement for earning his communications merit badge.