It is still legal to spot in Pa., but a lot of restrictions were added to it over the years. Read the book before you go. It was fun when we all had more time. We would hit big farms in the mountain valleys and there were a lot of cars out doing it. It is a shame that it gets abused so much. One night my brother-in-law had this really powerful spotlight and we were looking at some deer way back in a field along a woods. We spotted a whopper and as soon as the light hit the deer it turned for the woods and knocked over a deer right behind it. You know he was shot at with a light. I used to work nights in Bucks county (Pretty populated/BIG deer) and you could tell where they were jack lighting deer. If you saw deer in a field with your head lights and slowed down the deer would take off as if they were shot at (Because they had been). I don't remember who posted it, but they are right about car kills being mistaken for poaching. I know guys that only take the hind quarters if a deer gets hit in front of them. I take a fresh one too, but take the whole thing out of there.