Sports

Will Friday the 13th Be Lucky for Some PA Hunters?

Eighty-six hunters across the state will win elk licenses this Friday.

By Tom Coombe

This Friday is Sept. 13, and, all superstitions aside, it's going to be a lucky one for 86 Pennsylvania hunters.

That's because it's the day that the state Game Commission will issue its elk licenses for 2013 during a drawing at its headquarters in Harrisburg.


It's a pretty exclusive club to get into. Each year, the commission gets tens of thousands of people who apply for an elk license but only issues a relative handful of them. State officials say that the upside for those who aren't chosen is that, every time that you enter, you get a preference point for the following year's drawing.

If you've applied but can't make it to Harrisburg, you can watch the drawing live on the Game Commission's website—www.pgc.state.pa.us.


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