START 23 e 30 problems with getting there and getting into the woods on Saturday morning during a holiday weekend. But one thing's for sure: If a Saturday opener results in significantly higher participation, if the weather cooperates, and if all that additional hunting pressure leads to more and faster action, many will be speaking fondly about it afterward. The last time Pennsylvania opened its firearms deer season on a day other than the Monday after Thanksgiving was in 1962, and there hasn't been a Saturday DECEMBER 2019 BY TRAVIS LAU THE SATURDAY OPENER AND ITS UNWRITTEN FUTURE opener since 1945. So it's fair to say that most hunters taking to the woods in 2019 never have experienced a Pennsylvania firearms deer season that opened on a day other than Monday. There's sentimental value attached to the unofficial holiday that's been the Monday after Thanksgiving. And Brian Fauth shares in that. "I'm as traditional as anybody and I loved the Monday opener," Fauth said. "I loved everything about it. But for us, Saturday just works out better." Fauth, 58, of Hallam, said the Saturday opener will help to fill what's become an 3