The bad news here in Western PA is that the last week of archery and the first week of rifle season were both very poor weather for hunting: unseasonably warm weather, clear skies, lots of moonlight. As a result, the least amount of hunting pressure caused the deer to go nocturnal and relative few (at least, fewer than normal) were taken so far this year.

The good news is that there will likely be a large number of deer still available for the late archery season.

The area around Pittsburgh (2B) is problematic: unless you can find a small plot where no one would consider hunting with a gun, the huge number of available doe tags will insure that plenty of shotgunners (and a few high powered rifle shooters in the areas of 2B outside Allegheny County) will be in the woods looking to fill their freezers: not a great situation for an archer and downright dangerous if you don't wear orange (which is not technically required for an archer in 2B but should be).

However, the remainder of PA (except Pittsburgh and Philadelphia) will be flintlock muzzleloader/crossbow or archery only. Nobody around my property in Cambria Countyis interested in flintlock, crossbow, or bow, so I will have the area to myself. There is a lot of left-over cow corn to provide good deer grazing until the snow covers it, so if the deer are as numerous and relatively unscattered as I think, I should have a good chance at a doe.

I also have a tiny patch of woods near my parents house in 2B: too small to use any kind of firearms and very convenient including a ladder stand for a last minute hunt.

I have a buck in the freezer at present; I would like to add a doe before the year is over.