Pennsylvania's general firearms deer season is less than a week away, which is still too many days for hunters who have waited a whole year to get back into the woods. Whet your appetite with a bit of deer news from here, there and everywhere:
-- Sighting in is as much a part of the hunt as the hunt itself.
-- West Virginia's deer season opened Monday with tragedy: At least three hunters died and five others were injured, likely from carbon monoxide poisoning. Meanwhile, schools in West Virginia are seeing more absentees than usual.
-- Ohio also is gearing up for the deer opener Dec. 1.
-- A Milwaukee writer trots out the tired "hunting is not a sport" argument, complete with the thought about arming deer and the notion that all hunters are fat.
-- New York would be glad to reduce the number of deer in the state, the better to reduce the number of deer-car accidents.