Deer hunting season opened on the final Saturday of November this year to mild weather, with the following Sunday open for hunting as well. The deer population is healthy this year, so the Pennsylvania game commission was issuing more antlerless licenses than usual, as well.

Those specific conditions led to what Bim Slater, owner of Bim's Boloney, called a perfect storm, which overwhelmed his meat processing business to the point where he had to briefly cut off orders.

“You had three big hunting days in a row,” Slater said. “Sunday night we ran out of room for a couple hours. We had to shut them off just for an evening.”

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