Butler County Treasurer Diane Marburger, standing in her office in the Government Center on June 19, holds old forms that are no longer an option for getting a doe licenses. Justin Guido/ Butler Eagle
The second round of state antlerless deer license sales, in which hunters can buy a second antlerless license for the 2023-24 seasons, begins at 8 a.m. Monday, July 24.
Antlerless licenses are available anywhere hunting licenses are sold, including online at HuntFish.PA.gov.
More than 480,000 antlerless licenses and more than 490,000 general hunting licenses have been sold since licenses went on sale June 26, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Antlerless licenses remain in all but one of Pennsylvania’s 22 Wildlife Management Units. WMU 2G in north-central Pennsylvania sold out at lunchtime on the third day of license sales. However, three WMUs — WMUs 1B, 3A and 4C — have fewer than 1,000 licenses left, and it’s possible those WMUs will sell out before the second round begins.
The number of antlerless licenses remaining can be seen in real time on the “Antlerless Deer License Quota” page at huntfish.pa.gov. A link to this page also can be accessed by clicking on the red box titled “Antlerless Deer Quota” near the top of the homepage at pgc.pa.gov.
By checking the website, hunters can determine how urgent it is for them to buy a license and perhaps select a time when they can buy their license without waiting.
There was a lot of wait-free license buying in the first round of sales. More than 300,000 customers — about 65% of antlerless license buyers so far — bought their licenses with little or no waiting. But all of that followed long, slow-moving lines on the first day of sales, especially for online customers, some of whom waited upward of 10 hours to buy a license.
