Sunday hunting in pa today has little to do with religion. IMO, nothing to do with it. Pa is blessed with a ton of ecoweenies who also use Pa's huge numbers of public acres (most other states do not hold a candle to Pa in public hunting areas) With 2.5 million in state forest, 1.4 million in SGL and ANF under the feds we have alot of people who enjoy the outdoors who are not hunters. We also have the Penna Farm Bureau, which if you have never looked into, is a powerfull lobby in our farming state. Its just one day that the overall public does not have to deal with hunters, and it just happens to be on Sunday.

Today, when the discussion is had over hunting on sunday, there are no religous groups who are opposed. The opposition comes from PFB, and people who enjoy the luxury of not having hunters in the woods on one of the days of the weekend. Simple competition for the use of the lands from nonhunters.

If you have heard that Sunday hunting is coming to Pa, then you are a wishfull thinker. Even the largest pa sportsmans organization the Pa Federation of Sportsmans clubs does not support it, let alone the 11 million + non hunters who will weigh in on the subject before it would be passed. Thier recent vote this fall gave sunday hunting only 40% support amongst hunters of the PFSC.

I would like to hunt on Sunday, but its not something that we are going to see soon in Pa. It has been attemped every year that I can remember. Each year a state rep who wants to make some political hay with sportsman puts up a bill that languishes in committee and dies before ever getting out of committee. Lobbiests laugh when you say "this is the year". They get a chuckle out of that one.


Every state is different, and each finds its own path to travel.

Pa is in a constant balancing act of appeasing special interest groups. The legislature is not anxious to upset that balance.