The second round of antlerless deer license sales, in which Pennsylvania hunters can pick up a second antlerless license for the 2023-24 seasons, begins at 8 a.m. Monday.

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 sold since licenses went on sale June 26.

At present, antlerless licenses remain in all but one of Pennsylvania’s 22 Wildlife Management Units - WMU 2G in northcentral Pennsylvania, which sold out at lunchtime on the third day of license sales. However, three WMUs - WMUs 1B, 3A and 4C (which includes part of Carbon and Schuylkill counties) - have fewer than 1,000 licenses left, and it’s possible those WMUs will sell out before the second round begins.

WMU 3D, which includes Carbon and Monroe counties, has 19,697 licenses left.

WMU 5C, which includes Lehigh and Northampton counties, has 53,000 left.

Overall, there figures to be an abundance of licenses available in Round 2. Aside from the forementioned WMUs, only one other - WMU 3B - has less than 10,000 licenses. Many have more than 20,000, 30,000 - even 50,000 - antlerless licenses remaining.

The number of antlerless licenses remaining can be seen in real time on the Antlerless Deer License Quota page at HuntFishPA. A link to this page also can be accessed by clicking on the red box titled “Antlerless Deer Quota” near the top of the home page at www.pgc.pa.gov.

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 upwards of 10 hours to buy a license.

Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans emphasized that hunters aren’t to blame for the incredible demand generated on the first day of license sales, which saw more than five times the number of general licenses sold compared to the first day of sales in 2022. Because this was the first time antlerless deer licenses were available directly at issuing agents and online, no one knew how quickly licenses would sell out, Burhans said.

The majority of hunters who endured the inconvenience of long waits during the first day of sales just wanted to make sure they got their antlerless licenses, he said

Those who bought licenses online in Round 1, even on the first few days of sales, might not have received them yet.

Because of significant increases this year in the number of licenses sold - to date, general license sales are up by more than 8% and antlerless license sales by more than 99% compared to last year at this time - it’s taken longer to print and ship licenses.

Licenses purchased online usually arrive within seven to 10 business days. Even with the delays now being experienced, those who bought licenses online should receive them soon.

Hunters do not need their paper license to purchase an antlerless license in the second round, and a digital version of a general hunting license can be used when hunting coyotes and groundhogs - the primary species hunted in summer.

Each antlerless deer license costs $6.97 for residents and $26.97 for nonresidents. An antlerless license cannot be purchased without a general hunting license, though a general license and antlerless license can be purchased in the same transaction.

General hunting licenses cost $20.97 for residents and $101.97 for nonresidents.